A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, John William
JONES. (Lieutenant, 1809, f-p., 31; h-p., 19.)
John William Jones entered the Navy, in 1797, as a Volunteer, on board the Edgar 74, Capt. M‘Dougall, with whom he served for about three years in the Mediterranean and Channel, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman. He then removed to the Achille 74, Capt. Edw. Buller; and, after a short employment under that officer on the coast of France, became Master’s Mate of the Imogene sloop, in the West Indies. From 1802 until confirmed in his present rank, 28 Feb. 1809, he served again in the Achille, as also in the Malta 80, both commanded by Capt. Buller, and in the Confiance sloop, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, Indignant gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Petley, Orion 74, Capt, Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson (part of the force employed in the expedition to Copenhagen), Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Prometheus sloop, Capt. Thos. Forrest. He then joined the Diligence 18, Capt. Abraham Lowe, employed, as had been some of the ships last named, in the Baltic. He was afterwards appointed – 16 Aug. 1811, to the Tigre 74, Capt. John Halliday, stationed off Brest and Rochefort – 2 Nov. 1814, to the Crescent 36, Capt. John Quilliam, with whom he returned home from the West Indies and was paid off in Sept. 1815 – and, 26 Jan. 1821, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until 1834. He has since been on half-pay.