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On 18 January 2016, John Paul Jones sank the decommissioned guided-missile frigate Reuben James in a test of a new anti-surface warfare variant of the Raytheon Standard Missile 6 (SM-6), becoming the first ship to sink a ship with the new variant of the missile.
13 de jul. de 2020 · Jones entonces tomó el mando de la fragata Alliance y se escabulló de Texel, eludiendo a una Escuadra inglesa que lo bloqueaba. Primero llevó la Alliance a España y luego a Lorient, Francia, para reequiparse.
29 de jun. de 2020 · John Paul Jones (Nota BHM: conocido como "El Padre de la Armada Estadounidenese" junto a John Barry) personifica el espíritu de lucha y la actitud de nunca morir de la Armada de los Estados Unidos.
Con este buque salió en busca de la flota mercante británica de vuelta del Báltico, el 23 de septiembre de 1779, pudo divisar el convoy escoltado por la fragata de guerra Serapis y otro buque de menor porte.
John Paul Jones (born July 6, 1747, Kirkbean, Kirkcudbright, Scotland—died July 18, 1792, Paris, France) was an American naval hero in the American Revolution, renowned for his victory over British ships of war off the east coast of England (September 23, 1779).
Sailor, Prisoner, Captain, Spy. Nathaniel Fanning’s heroics alongside John Paul Jones were just one part of the young officer’s distinctly eventful and peril-filled Revolutionary War service.
John Paul Jones sought to raid British ports in 1779 with a small naval task force. Running headlong into the British frigate HMS Serapis in the North Sea, he embraced the opportunity for a bloody duel on England’s doorstep. This article appears in: Fall 2021. By Eric Niderost.
