A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, James
JONES. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
James Jones entered the Navy, 8 May, 1805, as A.B., on board the Raisonnable 64, commanded by the late Sir Josias Rowley, in which ship he served as Master’s Mate in Sir Robt. Calder’s action at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, in all the operations in the Rio de la Plata, and at the capture of the town of St. Paul’s in the Ile de Bourbon. In the course of 1810, having followed Capt. Rowley into the Boadicea 38, he was further present at the conquest of the latter island itself, the recapture of the Africaine 38, the taking, after a spirited action of 10 minutes, a loss to the Boadicea of 2 men wounded, and to the enemy of 9 killed and 15 wounded, of La Vénus, of 44 guns and 380 men, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hamelin, and of her prize the Ceylon 32 and the successful operations against the Isle of France. After his name had been borne for about five months on the books of the Africaine and Royal William, flag-ships at the Cape of Good Hope and at Plymouth of Vice-Admirals Albemarle Bertie and Sir Roger Curtis, Mr. Jones, in May, 1811, rejoined Capt. Rowley on board the America 74, and was afforded an opportunity, in consequence, of witnessing the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn in Dec. 1813, and of participating in the enduing capture of Genoa and its dependencies. He continued in the Mediterranean in the Queen 74, and Impregnable 98, under the flags of Rear-Admirals Chas. Vinicombe Penrose and his friend Sir J. Rowley, until Aug. 1815; then took up a commission dated on 21 of the previous Feb.; and has since been on half-pay.