Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Serapis, after the god Serapis of Hellenistic Egypt.
HMS Serapis (1779) was a 44-gun Roebuck-class two-decker fifth rate launched in 1779 and captured later that year by the American John Paul Jones. She became a French privateer and was lost to a fire in 1781.
HMS Serapis (1782) was a 44-gun fifth rate, launched in 1782, converted to a storeship in 1795, and sold at Jamaica in 1826.
HMS Serapis (1866) was an iron screw Euphrates-class troopship in service from 1866 to 1894.
HMS Serapis (1918) was a World War I S-class destroyer launched in 1918 and sold 1934.
HMS Serapis (G94) was a World War II S-class destroyer launched in March 1943, transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy in October as HNLMS Piet Hein, and broken up in 1962.
ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMSSerapis, after the god Serapis of Hellenistic Egypt. HMSSerapis (1779) was a 44-gun Roebuck-class two-decker...
Serapis is a name given to an unconventional, early United States ensign flown from the captured British frigate Serapis. At the 1779 Battle of Flamborough...
Bonhomme Richard and the rest of Jones's squadron on the one side, and HMSSerapis and HM hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough on the other. USS Vengeance (1805)...
squadron arrived in Bombay shortly before the Prince, who was travelling on HMSSerapis and HMY Osborne, and a number of grand events took place. On one evening...
Jones during the naval battle off of Flamborough Head, England against HMSSerapis in the celebrated engagement of September 23, 1779. He became one of...
USS Serapis may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy: Serapis, was a British frigate known as HMSSerapis captured by John Paul...
HMSSerapis. Frederic John Walker (1896–1944), Royal Navy captain known for anti–submarine operations in the Battle of the Atlantic, buried from HMS Hesperus...
did at least as much damage to Richard as to Serapis, but the tactic worked to the extent that Serapis was unable to move. With Alliance keeping well...
Satterlee HMS Saumarez HMS Scorpion HMS Scourge HMSSerapis USS Shubrick HMCS Sioux (Canadian) ORP Ślązak (Polish) HMS Stevenstone HNoMS Stord (Norwegian) HNoMS...
Paul Jones, engages the British ship HMSSerapis. The Bonhomme Richard sinks, but the Americans board the Serapis and other vessels, and are victorious...
referring to HMSSerapis, stationed in Port Royal under command of John Elliot. Despite this, Peglar's name does not appear in Serapis's muster book....
flag carried into battle by American troops. The Serapis ensign was flown from the captured HMSSerapis due to the loss of the standard ensign during the...
the S.S. Balaska in the series The Dana Girls Captain Corcoran, captain of HMS Pinafore, from Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta of the same name; however, ultimately...
engagement, USS Bonhomme Richard and Pallas, with USS Alliance, captured HMSSerapis and HM hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough, the best-known incident...
Jones was a captain in the Continental Navy and famously took captive HMSSerapis during the Battle of Flamborough Head after his ship, Bonhomme Richard...
above the rank of captain in the Continental Navy after his victory over HMSSerapis with the frigate USS Bonhomme Richard, John Paul Jones remains the first...
Serapis asked Jones if he had struck his colors, to which Jones has been quoted as replying, "I have not yet begun to fight!" Upon raking the Serapis...
In 1875, again at the invitation of the Prince of Wales, he joined HMSSerapis, which conducted the Prince on an official tour of India, 1875–76. Louis...
armed British frigate HMSSerapis by replying, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!", before defeating and capturing the Serapis. USS Philadelphia (1799)...
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