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USS John Paul Jones (DD-932/DDG-32), named for John Paul Jones, was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy.. John Paul Jones was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine on 18 January 1954, launched on 7 May 1955 by Mrs. Carney, wife of Admiral Robert B. Carney and commissioned on 5 April 1956, Comdr. R. W. Hayler, Jr., in command.
USS John Paul Jones refers to two destroyers of the United States Navy, named after John Paul Jones: USS John Paul Jones (DD-932), a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer, commissioned in 1956, redesignated as DDG-32 in 1967, and decommissioned in 1982; USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in ...
John Paul Jones DD-932 DDG-32: 18 January 1954 7 May 1955 5 April 1956 15 December 1982 Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 31 January 2001 [5] Barry DD-933 15 March 1954 1 October 1955 7 September 1956 5 November 1982 Scrapped 11 February 2022 [6] Decatur DD-936 DDG-31: Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard: 13 September 1954 15 ...
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
USS John Paul Jones launches a RIM-174 Standard ERAM (Standard Missile-6, SM-6) during a live-fire test of the ship's Aegis weapons system in the Pacific Ocean in June 2014. John Paul Jones was selected as the Shock Trial platform for the DDG-51 class. The ship was subjected to a series of close range explosions in order for the Navy to obtain ...
The next morning Paul Jones and three other U.S. destroyers escaped encirclement by Japanese forces closing on all sides of Java, by hugging close to the shore line and laying smoke at high speed when sighted in the Bali Strait. Paul Jones and John D. Ford later escorted Black Hawk on to Fremantle, Australia, arriving 4 March.
This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with I, J and K. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.
Paul Jones meanwhile had reversed course and approached Jason, which signaled that she had a submarine in sight. Paul Jones then closed with O-6 and opened 3-inch (76.2 mm) gunfire, but all of her shots fell short, and she ceased fire when she closed to a range of 3,000 yards (2,700 m) and saw that O-6 was flying a U.S. flag from her conning tower.