The U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command announced Friday that Darkstar, a group of expert divers from the UK, found wreckage belonging to the USS Jacob Jones off the southwestern tip of England.

The discovered object was the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, and the divers who found it were part of the U.K.’s Darkstar diving team. The destroyer was spotted on August 11, 2022.

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 ...

A massive brass bell that went down with a torpedoed U.S. Navy destroyer during World War I more than a century ago has been returned to the United States, officials said. The 80-pound bell from ...

The lost Destroyer, the USS Jacob Jones, was torpedoed in 1917 off the Southeastern tip of Great Britain. It had been escorting a troop and supply convoy into France, but was sailing by itself to ...

The USS Jacob Jones, an American destroyer, sank off the southwest coast of England in December 1917. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command On the afternoon of December 6, 1917, the USS Jacob ...

A team of experienced divers found the USS Jacob Jones 40 miles off the coast of the Isles of Scilly on 11 August. The vessel was one of six Tucker-class destroyers, designed by and built for the ...

The monument, still in the conceptual stage, would bear the names of 131 U.S. Navy sailors who died when a German submarine attacked their destroyer, the USS Jacob Jones, on Feb. 18, 1942.

Divers have explored the remains of USS Jacob Jones for the first time, 105 years after it went down off the Cornish coast. A total of 66 servicemen were lost after the vessel was torpedoed by a ...

This was the boat that destroyed The Resnor, and would soon sink the Jacob Jones. “It’s a little shocking to me how many people don’t know about the USS Jacob Jones,” Mayor Zach Mullock ...

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 ...

A team of experienced divers found the USS Jacob Jones 40 miles off the coast of the Isles of Scilly on 11 August. The vessel was one of six Tucker-class destroyers, designed by and built for the US ...