A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, John (b)
JONES. (Retired Commander, 1835, f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
John Jones (b) entered the Navy, 1 July, 1793, as A.B., on board the Goelan sloop, Capts. Thos. Wolley and Geo. Hopewell Stephens, under the former of whom he assisted in soon afterwards taking possession of Jeremie and of Cape Nicolas Mole, both on the island of St. Domingo. He next, from Sept. 1794 until Sept. 1801, served as A.B., Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Daedalus, of 38 guns, Capts. Thos. Williams, Geo. Countess, Henry Ledgbird Ball, and Chas. Jas. Johnston, on the Channel, North Sea, Coast of Africa, and West and East India stations. On 9 Feb. 1799, while under Capt. Ball, he contributed to the capture, after an action of more than an hour’s duration, of the French frigate La Prudente, of 30 guns and 301 men, 27 of whom were killed, and 22 wounded, with a loss to the British, out of 212 men, of not more than 2 killed and 12 wounded. In the following Aug., being at the time in the Gulf of Suez, we find him participating in a three days’ bombardment of the Egyptian town of Kosseïr, garrisoned by a number of French troops. On leaving the Daedalus Mr, Jones became Acting-Lieutenant of the Intrepid 64, Capt. Wm. Hargood, to which ship, also stationed in the East Indies, he was confirmed by commission dated 27 July, 1802. In Jan. 1804, a few months after his return to England, he joined the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves in the Channel, where, and among the Western Islands, he served from Dec. 1805 until he invalided in Nov. 1809 on board L’Impétueux 74, Capt. John Lawford. This was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 6 Jan. 1835.