[2] In 1920, Jones was appointed to command the Canadian destroyer HMCS Patrician, the first member of the original RNCC class to achieve the position.

Murray and Agnew used naval regulations to gain seniority on the Navy List, putting them closer to receiving commands than Jones.

Walter Hose, the director of the Royal Canadian Navy at the time, sought to ease tensions among the three by giving Jones command of Patrician.

In 1924, Jones joined the battleship HMS Resolution and wrote a letter in August to Hose requesting increased seniority on the Navy List due to the fact that he was unable to specialize and climb the ranks.

Jones was promoted to commander effective 1 January 1929 was made Senior Naval Officer Halifax at HMCS Stadacona in 1929.

This was not the reality as Jones took his fair share of sailings, but did represent his growing unpopularity among the personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy.

[9] Nelles liked Jones' ability to do staff work and got the permission from the Defence Minister, Angus L. MacDonald to bring him to Ottawa.

[2] A hard worker, Jones began a campaign to undermine Nelles and eventually take over command of the Royal Canadian Navy.

[11] Facing both internal dissent and external pressure, MacDonald reassigned Nelles to oversee the Canadian naval component of the upcoming invasion of Europe.

However, the British assumed Canada would send its fleet to help the Royal Navy recover lost colonies in the South Pacific, to which King wanted no part of.

As King grew angry at the efforts by MacDonald and Jones' to keep their word to the British that Canada would join them in the South Pacific, the two shifted blame onto Nelles as the scapegoat.

Jones and MacDonald travelled to England and managed to get the aircraft carriers and destroyers that had been promised in trade for Canadian support in the South Pacific without going against King's wishes.

[17] Jones' advocated further ties with the United States Navy, believing that the future lied in hemispheric defence.

Jones initially left Harry DeWolf in charge in Ottawa as acting Chief of Naval Staff and focused his attention on the Northwest Atlantic.

[18] Following the war's end, demobilisation efforts were restricted by the lack of direction from Ottawa, an issue that was not resolved until Jones' successor took over.