&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USSJacobJonesDD130.jpg) USS Jacob Jones in the 1930s
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Jacob Jones |
| Namesake | Jacob Jones |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
| Laid down | 21 February 1918 |
| Launched | 20 November 1918 |
| Commissioned | 20 October 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 24 June 1922 |
| Recommissioned | 1 May 1930 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-578 off Cape May, NJ, 28 February 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,090 tons |
| Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.7 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 8 in (2.6 m) |
| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement | 113 officers and enlisted |
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USS Jacob Jones (DD-130), named for Commodore Jacob Jones USN (1768–1850), was a Wickes-class destroyer. She was sunk by a German submarine in 1942 during World War II.