USS William Jones (DD-308)
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| Namesake: | William Jones |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Iron Works, San Francisco |
| Laid down: | 2 October 1918 |
| Launched: | 6 April 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 May 1930 |
| Struck: | 13 August 1930 |
| Fate: | sold for scrap on 25 February 1932 |
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| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 1⁄2 in (95.8 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 11 1⁄4 in (9.430 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns, 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun, 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS William Jones (DD-308), a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy, named for William Jones.
William Jones was laid down on 2 October 1918, at San Francisco, California, by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. She was launched on 9 April 1919, sponsored by Mrs. Ernest P. McRitchie, the wife of the assistant naval architect at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, and was commissioned at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, on 30 September 1920, with Lieutenant Commander C. E. Rosendahl in temporary command. Lt. Comdr. J. G. B. Gromer took command on 16 November.
Initially assigned to Division 34, Squadron 12, Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet, William Jones operated off the west coast on duty in connection with the Officers' Engineering School until October 1921, cruising as far north as Seattle, Washington and as far south as the waters off the Panama Canal Zone. Assigned to Destroyer Squadrons, Battle Fleet, early in 1922, the destroyer operated with this force over the next seven years. Her operations took the ship up and down the west coast from Puget Sound to the Panama Canal. She took part in fleet maneuvers, exercises in torpedo firing and gunnery, and battle practices. In March 1925, she joined the Fleet for Fleet Problem V during which she screened the Battle Fleet units off Baja California, as they carried out maneuvers designed to practice protective screening, seizing and occupying a lightly defended position, and fueling at sea.
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