John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor

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John Paul Jones's victories were made possible through a combination of strategy, training, and preparation. Jones was notorious for maintaining professionalism and discipline among his crewmembers. Jones's crew consisted of 380 men which only 60 were Americans. The rest was comprised of men from eight different nationalities including Britain. Due to the diversity of his crew, Jones had to concentrate on training his men to work together diligently and efficiently. At every spare moment he and his crew had, Jones took advantage of it and seized the opportunity to train his men. He had his crew practice gun drills over and over. With each command he gave, the crew slowly began to work together as a team and in time they were able to load cannons without a single mistake. Jones was able to take a "motley crew on board and weld it into a team."
John Paul Jones also expected all hand to become familiar with the general ...

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reduced the number to eighteen. Thoroughly disgusted in its construction, Jones took matter into his own hands and collected, cordage, boatswain's whistles, sails, clothes for his men, and cannons from all over New England. All these alterations were paid from his own pocket. Jones was so pressed on having the vessel to the highest quality that money was no object to its cause.
When the vessels were finally completed, Jones would look over them one final time. It was very difficult for a ship to be up to his standards. On one occasion Jones said, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go into harm's way." That is exactly what Jones did ...

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