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Photo # NH 52164:  Launching of USS Jacob Jones, 20 November 1918

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USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130), 1919-1942 -- Construction, 1918-1919

Jacob Jones was one of ten Wickes class "flush-deck" destroyers built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey, as part of the great World War I warship construction program. Her keel was laid on 21 February 1918. She was launched 20 November of that year, only nine days after the Armistice halted most of the fighting. With the wartime requirement for more destroyers now at an end, her post-launching outfitting progressed with less urgency, and Jacob Jones was not completed for eleven more months. She was commissioned on 20 October 1919.

This page features all the views we have related to the construction of USS Jacob Jones.

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  • USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130, later DD-130).


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    Photo #: NH 52163

    USS Jacob Jones
    (Destroyer # 130)

    Ship's Sponsor, Mrs. Florence C. Doughton, at the destroyer's christening ceremony, 20 November 1918. Jacob Jones was built at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98158

    USS Jacob Jones
    (Destroyer # 130)

    Mrs. Cazenove Doughton (Florence C. Jones), ship's Sponsor, with her party at Jacob Jones' christening ceremonies, 20 November 1918.
    The ship was built at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey.
    Those present include (from left to right): Mrs. Doughton, Mr. S.H. Ling, Mrs. Lele Young, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Arch Taylor, Mr. Workman, Miss Mildred Lee and Mrs. Florence Lee.
    Photographed by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation.

    Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 43195

    New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey


    Destroyers fitting out on 8 April 1919. They are (from left to right):
    Leary (Destroyer # 158; Builder's # 217);
    Babbitt (Destroyer # 128; Builder's # 213);
    Dickerson (Destroyer # 157; Builder's # 216); and
    Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130; Builder's # 215).
    Builder's hull numbers are painted in small numerals on the ships' bows.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     

    For more images of this ship, see:

  • USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 130, later DD-130).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 20 September 2002
    Photo caption corrected 18 November 2005