PORTSMOUTH — Lt. Cmdr. John Mentzer of the United States Navy paid homage to John Paul Jones, proclaimed by naval historians as "Father of the American Navy," on his 263rd birthday.

John Paul Jones is to America’s Navy what the mythic Paul Bunyan was to the continent’s lumberjack trade – if Jones hadn’t actually existed, some imaginative soul would have been obliged ...

Mr. Thomas discussed his biography, [John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy], published by Simon and Schuster. Revolutionary War hero Jones was born in Scotland in 1747 and ...

It is of little consequence whether, in the heat of a 1779 naval battle aboard the frigate Bonhomme Richard — its deck slick with blood, its hull splintered by cannon fire — Capt. John Paul ...

WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- It is three o'clock in the afternoon of Sept, 23, 1779. Captain of the Continental Navy John Paul Jones sights HMS Serapis, a British man-of-war, about 10 miles away ...

The Baltimore Sun prints a letter from a correspondent residing in Buckingham County, Va., containing some interesting statements connected with the career of the naval hero of the Revolution ...

The colonials had no navy, no standing army, ... John Paul Jones. These foreigners helped create and train the American forces in the great struggle to come, but one would stand out.

Bob Neyland, chief archaeologist for the Navy's Underwater Archaeology Branch, is searching for the wreckage of the USS Bonhomme Richard, a Continental Navy ship captained by John Paul Jones during ...