. John Paul Jones' last cruise and final resting place the United States Naval academy . CEREMONIES AT THE NAVAL ACADFMY On Monday morning, July 24, the body of Americas greatestnaval hero was transferred from the Brooklyn to the NavalAcademy on the naval tug Standish amid the booming of gunsfired in his honor by the American and French men-of-war, andplaced in the temporary vault that had been erected for thispurpose. The ceremonies at the Naval Academy were purely of a navalcharacter, neither President Roosevelt nor Governor Warfield ofMaryland being present. They took place at 10 a. m. when
. John Paul Jones' last cruise and final resting place the United States Naval academy . CEREMONIES AT THE NAVAL ACADFMY On Monday morning, July 24, the body of Americas greatestnaval hero was transferred from the Brooklyn to the NavalAcademy on the naval tug Standish amid the booming of gunsfired in his honor by the American and French men-of-war, andplaced in the temporary vault that had been erected for thispurpose. The ceremonies at the Naval Academy were purely of a navalcharacter, neither President Roosevelt nor Governor Warfield ofMaryland being present. They took place at 10 a. m. when theremains were landed from the Standish on a beautifully decoratedfloat in the basin facing the Severn River. Everything wasdone with the same precision and clocklike regularity that hadcharacterized the whole expedition from beginning to end, andnothing happened to mar the solemnity of the occasion. Aftera heavy rain which lasted until the early morning hours the sunshone brightly, when the naval heros remains reached theAmerican shore. They were met at the float by Admiral Sands,. m Sy officers, midship-^men anc/saiiors infront- of rhe tempo-rarf yauif during Meceremonies. V. atf1 4 Line of officers in front- of the0\rMemorial Chape/, safuting -the regainsof John Fteui Jones. THE CEREMONIES AT ANNAPOLIS, JULY 24, IQOS 56 JOIxN PAUL JONES LAST CRUISE Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Chaplain Clark and thecommanding officers of the American men-of-war of the squad-ron who acted as pall-bearers with Captain Gervais of the Jurieiide la Graviere, who had sent a detachment of sailors from hisship to act as an escort of honor with the sailors and marines ofthe American ships and the midshipmen of the fourth class ofthe Naval Academy. After the leaden coffin had been placed in a hearse, the cor-tege proceeded slowly, accompanied by the strains of a funeraldirge played by the Naval Academy band, to the front of thetemporary vault, near the new Memorial Chapel, where ChaplainClar
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