USS John Paul Jones

Not to be confused with USS Paul Jones.

USS John Paul Jones refers to two destroyers of the United States Navy:

USS John Paul Jones (DD-932), a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer, commissioned in 1956, redesignated as DDG-32 in 1967, and decommissioned in 1982
USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in 1993, and in active service as of 2013

In Fiction

USS John Paul Jones II, In the movie Destroyer (1943) a US Navy Destroyer in World War II, the namesake of an earlier ship sunk in action by the Japanese

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