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USS Claud Jones (DE-1033)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - E - F - C
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Main Line"

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation w/ star - Navy Expeditionary Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Second Row: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - Vietnam Service Medal w/ 3 stars - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Class: Claud Jones (As Built)      FY / SCB No.: 56-57/131
Displacement: 1314 tons (std), 1916 tons (full)    Dimensions: 312' (oa), 301" (wl) x 38' x 12' 11"
Armament: 2-3"/50 Mk 33 (1x2), 2 Mk 11 Hedgehog, 6-324mm US Mk 32 (3x2) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 4 Fairbanks-Morse 38ND8 Diesels, 9,037 shp, 1 shaft
Speed: 22 Knots    Range: 7,000 nm @ 12 knots    Crew: 159 (12 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Avondale Marine, Avondale LA on 1 June 1957
Launched 27 May 1958, Commissioned 10 February 1959
Decommissioned 16 December 1974, Stricken 16 December 1974

Fate: To Indonesia 16 December 1974, renamed KRI Mongisidi (DE-343)
in service as of 1999

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
56k	Claud Ashton Jones (7 October 1885 - 8 August 1948) was born in Fire Creek WV, 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 DC 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 WV on 8 August 1948. USS Claud Jones* (DE-1033) was the first ship named in his honor. (US Navy photo #NH48727* from the US Naval Historical Center*)	Navsource
448k	1962: *Claud Jones* off Key West FL.	William A. Press Commander, USNR (ret.)
216k	1966: the North Atlantic - *Claud Jones* approaching *Observation Island* for a highline transfer.	Robert T. Brown III USS Observation Island (EAG-154)
59k	October 1968: Pearl Harbor HI - *Claud Jones* entering port.	Richard Leonhardt Both Photos© Richard Leonhardt
85k	16 March 1972: Pearl Harbor	Richard Leonhardt Both Photos© Richard Leonhardt
56k	date / location unknown	Robert Hurst

Memorabilia
Decommissioning Booklet Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri

View the USS Claud Jones (DE-1033), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

see website under additional resources

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