Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Podcast
Tales of mishaps. misfortune, and misadventures
Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs
Depiction of John Paul Jones leading a sea battle.

John Paul Jones: Terror of the English

John Paul Jones came from humble beginnings from a small village in southwest Scotland. At age 13 he started his maritime career and by age 21 was the captain of his own ship. Jones joined the first Continental Navy when the American Revolutionary War began, and quickly established himself as an aggressive and master tactician. His daring raid of Whitehall, England earned him the reputation as a pirate and a traitor in Great Britain, while the Americans and French celebrated him as a hero. While Jones was both loved and hated by his contemporaries, he is remembered as the Father of the American Navy and a hero of the American Revolution.

Gallery

A small, white rustic cottage.
The birthplace and home of John Paul Jones at Arbigland, Scotland. It is now the John Paul Jones Cottage Museum.
Depiction of sailors in hand-to-hand combat.
A depiction of the Battle of Flamborough Head, showing the Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis side by side.
Painting of US and British frigates firing at each other.
Battle between Continental Ship Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis, 23 September 1779, by Thomas Mitchell, 1780. The original work hangs at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Painting of Captain John Paul Jones and his crew watching the Bonhomme Richard sink.
John Paul Jones bids goodbye to his Victorious Ship, USS Bonhomme Richard by Percy Moran
A photo of a decayed but still well-preserved corpse of John Paul Jones.
The exhumed and well-preserved body of John Paul Jones, as it was discovered in 1905.
A casket covered in the US flag and sailors standing at attention.
The casket containing the body of John Paul Jones arrives in Annapolis in July of 1905, on board the tug Standish.
A ceremony with American flags and a crowd of Navy personnel listening to President Roosevelt speak.
President Theodore Roosevelt speaking at a ceremony for John Paul Jones at Annapolis, Maryland, circa 1905. (Courtesy of Edward Page, 1979, now in the collections of U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)
An ornate sarcophagus and crypt with marble floors.
The marble and bronze crypt of John Paul Jones is in the United States Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland.
A tall stone monument with a bronze statue in an outdoor park.
This monument to John Paul Jones is located in Potomac Park in Washington, D.C.

Sources

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *