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.
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Page made 20 September 2002
Photo caption corrected 18 November 2005