John Haywood

The body of John Paul Jones lay missing for over a century. Paved over by a growing city in a foreign land. But he was never forgotten. In 1905, after a six-year search, the American ambassador to France found Jones's grave buried beneath the streets of Paris, his body still preserved in a lead coffin. The courageous captain sailed his final voyage home across the Atlantic, accompanied by an escort of warships from the Navy he helped create. Today he is finally resting. In a marble tomb at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. And his legend sails on. The USS John Paul Jones patrols the seas for the most powerful Navy in the world, carrying the relentless spirit of the man who once said: “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way”