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 2016

Fiction

• USS John Paul Jones II, in the 1943 movie Destroyer, a World War II destroyer, the namesake of an earlier ship sunk in action by the Japanese