Evening journal., 1910-10-05


is some doubt about the fate of that
vessel. Cooper's History says that
she grounded in action in the Della
ware river and was captured by the
British. The records of the Navy De-
partment Library state that she took
an active part, as one Of Commodore
John Hazelwood's feet, in engage
ments in the Delaware river. was in
action at the destruction Of the British
ships Augusta, Of sixty-four guns and
Merlin, eighteen guns. October, 1777.
and, being unable to pass the British
fortitcations below Philadelphia, she
was set on fire. to prevent capture by
! the enemy, November 19, 1777.
The second Delaware was a sloop-
of-war Of twenty guns, commanded by
Stephen Decatur. father OF the famous
commodore of that name. In June.
1898, near the Delaware capes. she
took lie Crozable, the first capture Of
the French naval war She took other
prizes while cruising in. the West
Indies; and. finally, she was sold. in
1901, under the Peace Establishment
Act Of Congress.
The third vessel was a line-of-
battleship Of 1888 tons, "a guns and
$50 officers and men, launched in
1920. She was the first man-of-war
docked in this country, at Norfolk,
on Bunker Hill Day, 1888 That
Delaware had a distinguished career
as flagship in the Mediterranean and
on the Brazil station, from 1928 tc
1874. She was destroyed at Norfoll
when the Union forces evacuated th'
navy yard at the beginning of the Civi
War. The figurehead of the Delaware
an Indian chief with a tomahawk il
his hand, is preserved at the Nava
Academy.
Fourth vessel, a small side-whee
steamer, prominently and most credit
ably engaged in operations on tn
sounds of North Carolina during tn
Civil War She was the flagship 0
Captain Rowan, afterward vice-ad
miral. in many important expeditions
She was sold after the war
"One of the fine corvettes, built 70
the Navy during the Civil War. wa
renamed Delaware and did good ser
vice as flagship of Admiral Rowan o.
the Asiatic station. Built of unsea
soned white oak, the vessel soon de
cayed and passed from the Navy list.
To-day we stand on the ouarte
deck of a sixth vessel of the name,
! battleship, the finest of all II is nc
to the weapon, but chiefly to the me
who use 1t that we must look for il
place in history. In this hour {
qualification that the name of Dels
! ware is joined to the most potentis
agent of peace and. in the last rt
sort. of the nations safety and homo
II is fitting that we should pay tribut
: to the memory of some of those Dels
wareans, whose character and deed
/ supplied much toward the efflcienc
of the Navy and the fame of its ship
Honor for State Heroes.
! The Delaware Society Unite
Daughters of 1912 will present to II
battleship Delaware a portrait
Commodore Jacob Jones, The Dell
. ware Society of the Colonel Danes
! America. one of Commodore Thom;
MaCdonough, and Mrs Amy E. duPol
one of Admiral Samuel Francis dl
Pont. Under the commands of u
donors. 1 beg to submit brief remarl
l. upon the services of those illustriol
: men.
y Jacob Jones was born in Ma .
u 1868, on a farm near Smyrna. in Ke
n county. Delaware He married al
y practiced medicine and surgery in b
" native county. Soon after the dea
/ of his wife having no children,
l. quit professional work as a physicii
(, and. on May /, 1893, being then
years Of ago. he accepted a warra
'r as a midshipman in the Navy.
6, served actively more than flfty-ol
y wears. during which he held many IL
l. portant posts, afoat and ashore, /
r. Guiding the command Of several shiJ
S, of the Mediterranean Squadron, I
st Baltimore Naval Station, the Paci
W SQUADRON and as Governor of I
ID Naval Asylum. He died at Philad'
i phia. August 8. 1850, and his renal
In rest in the Wilmington and Brand
wine cemetery. beneath a monume
erected by his native state.
A. "Jones was Second Lieutenant
the frieate Philadelphia when S
g struck upon a shoal and was tax
Y. bv the Tripolitans, October 81, IS
of and he remained a prisoner un
ur liberated by the treaty of June
en- 1906.
re war against Great Britain, June
er 1912. Jones, a Master Commando
IS corresponding to the present rank
on Commander, was at sea in comma
nd of the Sloop-of-war Wasp, carryi
az despatches from our government
France. Returning, he made
ut Delaware river safely, refitting
on ship and, on October 13, put to S
OF Five days later, southwark and ca
.eI ward of the Delaware capes, the w,
0i- overhauled and captured the Brit
cruiser Frolic. On the same day
on Frolic was retaken and the Wasp c
..S tured by a British line-of-battle sh
al al and Jones was again a prisoner
war.
Nv Commodore Jones held the frie
,ro shin of his associates in the navy
,ar of the public men OF his native ST
The foundation upon which was fl
m the esteem Of the people is v
ere epitomized in a sentence engra