Divers retrieved a brass bell from the sunken USS Jacob Jones, a WW1-era American destroyer. The bell was recovered due to concerns about the plundering of military wreck sites. The bell will be ...

For the first time in 107 years, something from the USS Jacob Jones is above water. The ship’s bell from the first American destroyer sunk in combat was recovered and later this year will be ...

A team of deep divers discovered the USS Jacob Jones last week, 40 miles off the coast of the Isles of Scilly. It was one of six Tucker-class destroyers built for the US Navy before America ...

The USS Jacob Jones was the first US Navy destroyer to be lost to enemy action when it was torpedoed by a German submarine in December 1917. In August 2022 the wreck was found about 328ft (100m ...

More than a century after it sank beneath the waves off the southwestern coast of England, the USS Jacob Jones has been found. Members of the UK’s Darkstar diving team announced they located the ...

The 80-pound bell from the USS Jacob Jones was turned over to U.S. Navy Adm. James Kilby by a British Royal Navy officer in a ceremony earlier this month, the U.S. Naval History and Heritage ...

The USS Jacob Jones, the first U.S. destroyer to be sunk by enemy fire, has been found. The wreckage of the World War I destroyer was discovered Aug. 11 by members of the UK diving team Darkstar ...

The USS Jacob Jones, commissioned in 1916, was on the North Atlantic during the World War I when it became the first U.S. destroyer to be sunk by enemy fire. "The USS Jacob Jones was called a ...

The USS Jacob Jones was one of six vessels named Tucker-class destroyers, designed by and built for the US Navy before the nation entered World War One. The impressive vessel was the first of the ...

(Seaman William G. Ellis, Smithsonian Institution photograph/Courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command) The wreckage of the USS Jacob Jones, a Tucker-class destroyer, and the first ship of ...