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Drawing of an Edsall class escort ship, like USS Jacob Jones

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USS Jacob Jones (DE-130), 1943-1973

USS Jacob Jones, a 1200-ton Edsall class escort ship built at Orange, Texas, was commissioned in April 1943. In July and August, following shakedown, she escorted a convoy across the Atlantic to North Africa, making one antisubmarine attack during the voyage. Jacob Jones was employed in convoy escort and patrol between the U.S. and the Mediterranean area for the rest of 1943. She served with the escort carrier Card (CVE-11) in January-March 1944, then began shepherding convoys across the North Atlantic to the United Kingdom and, later, to France. This duty lasted for the rest of the European war, with occasional breaks for shipyard work, training and patrol service.

In July 1945, Jacob Jones passed through the Panama Canal to join the war against Japan. However, that nation surrendered soon after the ship reached the Hawaiian Islands. After transporting personnel to the West Coast, she returned to the Atlantic in September to begin deactivation preparations. She was decommissioned in July 1946. After nearly three decades in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, initially at Green Cove Springs, Florida, and later at Orange, Texas, USS Jacob Jones was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1971 and sold for scrapping in August 1973.

USS Jacob Jones was named in honor of Commodore Jacob Jones, USN, (1768-1850), a naval hero of the War of 1812.

The Naval Historical Center photographic collection contains no pictures of USS Jacob Jones (DE-130), but this page provides information on views of her that may be available from the National Archives.


The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-44446
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway, probably at the time of her completion, circa April 1943.
    Starboard broadside surface view, taken from well ahead of amidships. The ship's extreme bow and stern have been cropped out of this view and her masthead radar antenna has been removed by the sensor.

  • Photo #: 80-G-76617
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway in the western Atlantic (position 36 55'N, 74 47'W) on 27 July 1943. Course 270. Time 0727Q. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-14, based at Weeksville Naval Air Station, North Carolina.
    Starboard broadside aerial view, taken from an altitude of 300 feet.

  • Photo #: 80-G-218111
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway in the Atlantic, 29 January 1944. Photographed from the escort aircraft carrier Card (CVE-11).
    Port bow surface view, taken from several feet higher than Jacob Jones' pilothouse top. She has many crewmen on deck.


  • Photo #: 80-G-219923
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway near New York City, 25 March 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station New York aircraft.
    Starboard bow aerial view, taken from an altitude of 300 feet.

  • Photo #: 80-G-219924
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway near New York City, 25 March 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station New York aircraft.
    Port broadside aerial view, taken from an altitude of 300 feet.

  • Photo #: 80-G-219926
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway near New York City, 25 March 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station New York aircraft.
    Starboard quarter high aerial view, rather tight on the stern, taken from an altitude of 300 feet.


  • Photo #: 80-G-285388
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway near New York City, 22 October 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station New York aircraft.
    Port bow high aerial view, taken from an altitude of 300 feet.

  • Photo #: 80-G-285389
    USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) underway near New York City, 22 October 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station New York aircraft.
    Starboard broadside high aerial view, taken from well ahead of amidships. Altitude: 300 feet.


    Note: In all of the above photographs USS Jacob Jones is painted in a horizontal two-tone camouflage (probably Measure 22). The two 1943 photographs and that taken in January 1944 show the ship's bow number reading "DE130". Those taken later show just the number "130".


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


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