WI John Paul Jones, the Father of the Navy, became our first admiral? It almost happened. John Paul Jones, born John Paul in 1747, was the captain of
a merchant ship back in 1763. At this time, his crew had mutinied. His first mate threw in his lot with the mutineers, while they were in Trinidad. This,
according to my only source on John Paul Jones, a children's biography of him
called John Paul Jones Fighting Sailor. My mother has a book on Ships of
the American Revolution, and John Paul Jones, who was the captain of the
Ranger, and other ships, including the Bonhomme Richard, was
recalled to the United States in 1777, to command a 74-gun ship-of-the-line
named America, which was being built at time, but was delayed because
of a lack of supplies.