Show SUBMARINE SINKS U UI S DESTROYER JACOB JONES ONE OF THE NEWEST NEWEST NEW- NEW 1 EST BOATS IN NAVY SENT DOWN BY U Was on Patrol Duty Between and Miles From Shore When Attack Attack At At- At tack Was Made three Forty of Crew Being Lost Washington The The American destroyer destroy destroy- er Jacob Jones was torpedoed and sunk In the war var zone on December G 0 it has been announced one officer and sixt sixty nine men being lost Five officers and thirty eight men were p picked ed cl up by other vessels from life Ilfe rafts to which the they clung The Jacob Jones one of the largest and newest American submarine chasers of her bel t type pe operating in the Atlantic was wa the first American war- war to fall a victim to a German submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine but was the second destroyer to be lost in foreign waters The Time Chauncey sank with her commander Lieutenant Commander Walter E. E Reno Heno two other officers and eighteen enlisted men after aftel being cut in two b by ly the transport Rose nose earl early on the morning of November 20 Admiral Sims' Sims terse message reporting reporting reporting report report- ing the loss of the time Jacob Jones did not state how the attack was made It Is ii known however that th the Jones was wason wason on patrol duty between n and miles off shore What vessels accompanIed accompanied accorn- accorn her was not revealed but Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral mural Sims' Sims report showed that one vessel rescued thirty men and another seven se Secretary Daniels' Daniels stoutly held to his hopes that other patrol craft aft possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly without wireless equipment had hatI rescued more of the destroyers destroyer's com corn pany Mr l Daniels showed plainly the strain of his personal anxiety as well wella's wells a's as s that over this the time greatest loss to the navy thus far in iu the war for Commander Commander Com Corn mander David Worth Bagley who went vent do down with his vessel is the secretary's in brother Navy officers an took pride in the fact fact- that the Jacob Jones and her crew had written new honors into nav navy records before the vessel fell victim to an enemy torpedo In October October October Octo Octo- ber the J Jones Jnes nes went gallantly to the rescue of the British converted cruiser Orama accompanied by another American Amer Arner- ican destroyer when the former P P. O. O liner Uner was torpedoed They attacked and put the submarine out of commission commission commis commis- sion and then when the cruiser began to tu settle transferred all on board to their own decks without accident The Jones carried 30 British seamen sea seamen seamen sea sea- men to safety A letter from the commander coin coin- com Coin mander of the Orama to the senI senior r American officer of the two destroyers gave high praise to the courage and skill of the Americans |