Participating in the hazardous rescue of the officers and crew of the sinking Monitor, Jones, after rescuing several of the men, became separated in a heavy gale with other members of the cutter that had set out from the Rhode Island, and spent many hours in the small boat at the mercy of the weather and high seas until finally picked up by a schooner 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras
After rescuing some men from the sinking Monitor, Jones was separated from his crew in a fierce storm while aboard a small boat off the coast of Rhode Island. They spent many hours battling rough seas and high winds before being rescued by a schooner fifty miles east of Cape Hatteras.