Click On Image
For Full Size Image |
Size |
Image Description |
Contributed
By And/Or Copyright |
0602103301
|
56k |
Claud Ashton Jones was born on 07 October 1885 in Fire Creek, W.V., was appointed to the US Naval Academy in 1903 and graduated with the Class of 1906. He served
in the battleships Indiana and New Jersey and received his commission as an Ensign in 1908. Between 1909 and 1915, Jones was assigned to the training ship
Severn and the armored cruiser North Carolina, received post-graduate engineering education at the Naval Academy and Harvard University, and served in the
battleships Ohio, New York and North Dakota. He was promoted to Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in 1911 and Lieutenant in 1914. Lt. Jones was severely
injured when the armored cruiser Tennessee was wrecked by a tsunami on 29 August 1916. After recovering he served ashore in industrial positions until after the end of World War I. Years later, in recognition of his heroic conduct in rescuing crewmen from steam-filled engineering spaces, then-Commander Jones was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Lieutenant Commander Jones was designated as a specialist engineering duty officer in 1918 and in 1920-1921, as a Commander, was Engineer Officer of the new battleship Tennessee.
During the 1920s and into the early 1930s he had two Navy Department tours with the Bureau of Engineering, served in Europe as an Assistant Naval Attache and was senior engineering officer
with the Battle Fleet. He was promoted to Captain in 1933, again while on duty with the Bureau of Engineering. Captain Jones had machinery and materiel inspection assignments for the rest of
the decade, then returned to Washington, D.C. to serve as Head of the Shipbuilding Division of the Bureau of Ships.
As a Rear Admiral, he was the Bureau's Assistant Chief and, for much of World War II, Assistant Chief of Procurement and Material. He became Director of the Naval Experiment Station at
Annapolis, Md. from September 1944 until the end of 1945. Retired in June 1946, Rear Admiral Jones died at Charleston, W.V. on 08 August 1948.
USS Claud Jones (DE 1033) (1959-1974) was the first ship named in his honor.
(U.S. Navy photo #NH48727 from the U.S. Naval
Historical Center) |
Mike Smolinski
Clifton, N.J.
Navsource DE/FF/LCS
Archive Manager |
0602103314 |
161k |
27 May 1958: Westwego, la. - A press photo of the future USS Claud Jones (DE 1033), shortly before her christening and launch at Avondale Marine Ways. |
S. Dale Hargrave
Newport News, Va. |
0602103305 |
56k |
date / location unknown |
Bob Hurst
Worksop, Nottinghamshire,
England, United Kingdom |
0602103310 |
309k |
date / location unknown: Claud Jones (DE 1033) underway.
(U.S. Navy Photo, from "Jane's Fighting Ships" 1964-65) |
0602103309 |
77k |
circa 1959: USS Claud Jones (DE 1033) underway.
(U.S. Navy Photo, from "Jane's Fighting Ships" 1960-61) |
0602103311 |
107k |
1960's: Punta Delgada, Azores - Claud Jones and USS John R. Perry (DE 1034) at
Porto de Ponta Delgada, Açores. The ship in the center background is the German training ship Deutschland (A-59), 1966-90. |
Carlos Manuel Estrela
Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands |
0602103302 |
448k |
1962: Claud Jones off Key West, Fla. |
William A. Press
Commander, USNR (ret.) |
0602103306 |
216k |
1966: the North Atlantic - Claud Jones approaching USS Observation Island
for a highline transfer. |
Robert T. Brown III
USS Observation Island (EAG 154) |
0602103307 |
321k |
1966: the North Atlantic - Claud Jones approaching Observation Island
for a highline transfer. |
Tom Dennis
USS Observation Island (EAG 154) |
0602103308 |
187k |
1966: the North Atlantic - Claud Jones breaking away from Observation
Island after highlining. |
0602103303 |
59k |
October 1968: Pearl Harbor, Hi. - Claud Jones entering port.
Photo© Richard Leonhardt |
Richard Leonhardt
Bethlehem, Pa. |
0602103315 |
225k |
22 February 1971: the Pacific Ocean - The destroyer escort Claud Jones underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii.
(U.S. Naval Historical Center photo #NH 107506 by PH1/AC Dixon M. Dreher, from the Naval History and Heritage Command) |
Bob Hurst
Worksop, Nottinghamshire,
England, United Kingdom |
0602103304 |
85k |
16 March 1972: Pearl Harbor |
Photo© Richard Leonhardt
Richard Leonhardt
Bethlehem, Pa. |
0602103312 |
235k |
03 July 1972: South China Sea - Two photos of Claud Jones taken from USS Ashtabula (AO 51) after completing an
underway replenishment.
(Photo # 721211 & 721212 by G. R. Sirkis) |
Glenn R. Sirkis
MMFN, A Div.
USS Ashtabula (AO 51) |
0602103313 |
404k |
