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Destroyers are built to hand out punishment, not to take it. If a lurking submarine gets in the first punch, they have not much chance, especially old four-pipers like the Jacob Jones. The "Jakie," as her crew called her, was off Cape May, N.J. when the first torpedo crumpled her bow, probably killing every officer and man on the bridge and most of the men in the forward sleeping quarters. Less than a minute later, a second torpedo blew in the stern, exploding some of the destroyer's own depth charges. Four men tried to launch a lifeboat...
...stern of the Jacob Jones broke off and sank, leaving the center section afloat. Dozens of men were in the water, some of them looking for rafts and calling for help. Seaman Dors left his raft, swam back to the hulk, tried to cut more rafts loose. He failed. When the water reached his ankles he shoved off again, found another raft. The rest of the "Jakie" went down with a mighty explosion that tossed nearby swimmers into the air like popcorn. The sun was high in the sky when a rescue boat found the survivors: Dors and ten other...
After about a year on this ship, during which time he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Black was assigned to the U.S.S.S. Jacob Jones as Commanding Officer...
Hugh D. Black, Lieutenant-Commander, U.S. Navy, and onetime associate professor of Naval Science and Tactics at the University, went down with his ship yesterday when the destroyer Jacob Jones was torpedoed off Cape May by an enemy submarine...
...Commander Black took command of the Jacob Jones on April 14, 1941. Born in New Jersey, he entered the Naval Academy from that state in 1922 and was graduated in 1926, subsequently serving on various men of war both in the Atlantic and the Pacific...