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106k | Jacob Jones was born in Delaware in March 1768. Initially educated in the field of medicine, he was employed as clerk of the Delaware Supreme Court before joining the Navy in 1799 as a Midshipman. During the Quasi-War with France, he served under Commodore John Barry in the frigate United States and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1801. Jones was an officer of the frigate Philadelphia when that ship was taken by the Tripolitans in 1803. Held captive for nearly two years, he again had seagoing service after his release and, with the rank of Master Commandant, took command of the sloop of war Wasp in 1810. In October 1812, during the early months of the War of 1812, Jones took Wasp on an Atlantic cruise. Despite storm damage to his ship, he attacked a British convoy on 18 October and, following an intense battle, captured the Royal Navy sloop of war Frolic. Both combatants were seriously damaged and soon fell victim to the powerful ship of the line Poictiers, but Jones' achievement was widely admired. Returning to the United States after an exchange of prisoners, he received a gold medal from the Congress, was promoted to the rank of Captain and given command of the frigate Macedonian. With his ship blockaded at New York, Captain Jones was sent to the Lake Ontario theatre, where he commanded the frigate Mohawk during the last year of the war. During the final Barbary War, in 1815, Jacob Jones again commanded Macedonian. Service as Captain of the frigate Guerriere followed in 1816-1818. He was Commodore of the United States' squadrons in the Mediterranean in 1821-1823 and in the Pacific in 1826-1829. Jones was a Navy Commissioner in Washington, D.C., between those tours at sea and held important commands ashore at Baltimore and New York during the 1830s and 1840s. He received final assignment, as commandant of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia in 1847. Commodore Jacob Jones held that position at the time of his death on 3 August 1850. The U.S. Navy has named two destroyers and an escort ship in honor of Jacob Jones, including: USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 61), 1916-1917; USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130, later DD-130), 1919-1942; and USS Jacob Jones (DE-130), 1943-1973. Photo #: NH 48739. Captain Jacob Jones, USN, crayon portrait by Albert Rosenthal, 1918, after a painting by Rembrandt Peale. The artist presented this portrait to USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Bill Gonyo | |
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67k | Undated, location unknown. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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153k | Undated, in the Panama Canal Locks, prior to W.W.II | Fred Weiss | |
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131k | Undated, USS Swasey (DD-273), USS Welles (DD-257) and USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) in the Panama Canal. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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103k | Photo #: NH 52164, USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130) launching, at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, 20 November 1918. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Paul Rebold | |
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91k | USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130) Photographed soon after she was completed, in 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Fred Weiss | |
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110k | USS Yorktown (CV 5), USS Texas (BB 35), USS Decater (DD 341), USS Jacob Jones (DD 130), and unidentified tug at Pier 7, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, on 19 October 1937. Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives. | Joe Radigan | |
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70k | Photo #: NH 77258: The USS Cuyama (AO-3) with twelve destroyers tied up alongside, during the early 1920s. The ships present include (from left to right): USS Jacob Jones (DD-130); USS Hull (DD-330); USS Thompson (DD-305); USS Corry (DD-334); USS Kennedy (DD-306); USS Reno (DD-303); USS Cuyama (AO-3; USS Stoddert (DD-302); USS Yarborough (DD-314); USS Sloat (DD-316); USS Litchfield (DD-336); USS Shubrick (DD-268); USS Young (DD-312); Courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, 1973. From the scrapbooks of Fred M. Butler. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Fabio Peņa | |
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102k | Photo #: NH 64569: USS Tattnall (DD-125), USS Jacob Jones (DD-130), and USS Hopkins (DD-249) (listed left to right) moored together off San Diego, California, circa 1935. This view shows the ships' bows, with signal flags hoisted in the rigging in honor of a special occasion. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | - | |
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102k | Photo #: NH 64568: USS Hopkins (DD-249), USS Jacob Jones (DD-130), and USS Tattnall (DD-125) (listed left to right) moored together off San Diego, California, circa 1935. This view shows the ships' sterns, with propeller guards, depth charge racks and small craft visible. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | - | |
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58k | USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) Photographed circa the 1930s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969 U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Fred Weiss | |
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153k | Destroyers laid up at San Diego, California. Some of the eighty reserve destroyers in San Diego harbor, part of some 260 destroyers laid up there and at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph dated 29 December 1926. Identifiable ships present include (from left to right): USS Kennison (DD-138); USS Jacob Jones (DD-130); USS Aulick (DD-258); USS Babbitt (DD-128); USS Twiggs (DD-127); and USS Badger (DD-126). Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Fred Weiss | |
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90k | Photo #: NH 54261, USS Jacob Jones (DD-130), USS Erie (PG-50), and USS Manley (DD-74) (listed left to right) in harbor, during a U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen's cruise, 3 August 1937. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Paul Rebold | |
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88k | USS Yorktown (CV-5) Tied up at Pier 7, Naval Operating Base Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 September 1937, with commissioning ceremonies underway on her flight deck. USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) is on the opposite side of the pier. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | Fred Weiss | |
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