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    18-pounders, twenty 9-pounders, and four 6-pounders). Serapis was named after the god Serapis in Greek and Egyptian mythology. The Americans captured...
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  • 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...
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    HMS Serapis was a Euphrates-class troopship commissioned for the transport of troops to and from India. She was launched in the Thames on 26 September...
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    HMS Serapis was a fifth-rate ship of the Roebuck class designed by Sir Thomas Slade for use in the shallow coastal waters around North America. She was...
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    sail under convoy of HMS Serapis and HM hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough near Flamborough Head. Bonhomme Richard and Serapis entered a bitter engagement...
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  • Serapis is a Greco-Egyptian god. Serapis may also refer to: HMS Serapis, various British ships USS Serapis, several US ships This disambiguation page lists...
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    Serapis is a name given to an unconventional, early United States ensign flown from the captured British frigate Serapis. At the September 23, 1779 Battle...
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    Paul Jones, engages the British ship HMS Serapis. The Bonhomme Richard sinks, but the Americans board the Serapis and other vessels, and are victorious...
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    HMS Serapis was an S-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The ship was built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company from 1941 to 1943, and...
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  • Navy, who served aboard Bonhomme Richard during its 1779 battle with HMS Serapis. Fanning was born in Stonington, Connecticut, and was the eldest son...
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  • Bonhomme Richard and the rest of Jones's squadron on the one side, and HMS Serapis and HM hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough on the other. USS Vengeance (1805)...
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    HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the Minotaur-class armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. Minotaur took nearly four years between...
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    Charkieh 22 Oct: HMS Serapis Oct: HMS Daphne 3 Dec: Terribile 5 Dec: Mary Celeste 8 Dec: HMS Cambridge 25 Dec: HMS Hercules 25 Dec: HMS Northumberland Unk:...
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  • USS Serapis may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy: Serapis, was a British frigate known as HMS Serapis captured by John Paul...
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    – January 1806) was a Royal Navy officer who was captain of the ship HMS Serapis during the American Revolutionary War. As a lieutenant in the East Indies...
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    Jones during the naval battle off of Flamborough Head, England against HMS Serapis in the celebrated engagement of September 23, 1779. He became one of...
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    squadron arrived in Bombay shortly before the Prince, who was travelling on HMS Serapis and HMY Osborne, and a number of grand events took place. On one evening...
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    Serapis engaged Bonhomme Richard, and Alliance fired from a considerable distance at Countess. After sustaining significant damage from the Serapis and...
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    HMS Serapis was an S-class destroyer, which served with the Royal Navy during the Greco-Turkish and Russian Civil Wars. Launched on 17 September 1918...
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    Scarborough at the Bonhomme Richard would hit Serapis, or worse still, massive 18 pounds (8.2 kg) shots from Serapis could accidentally hit the Countess of Scarborough...
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    up 1817 HMS Ulysses 1779 – sold 1816 HMS Serapis (I) 1779 – taken by John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard 1779 HMS Endymion 1779 – lost 1790 HMS Assurance...
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    flag carried into battle by American troops. The Serapis ensign was flown from the captured HMS Serapis due to the loss of the standard ensign during the...
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    HMS Serapis. Frederic John Walker (1896–1944), Royal Navy captain known for anti–submarine operations in the Battle of the Atlantic, buried from HMS Hesperus...
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    HMS Jumna 20 Apr: Cuxhaven May: HMS Albatross 18 Jul: HMS Belleisle 13 Sep: Ancon Oct: HMS Tyne 17 Nov: HMS Swallow 24 Nov: HMS Serapis 24 Dec: HMS Minotaur...
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    engagement, USS Bonhomme Richard and Pallas, with USS Alliance, captured HMS Serapis and HM hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough, the best-known incident...
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  • referring to HMS Serapis, stationed in Port Royal under command of John Elliot. Despite this, Peglar's name does not appear in Serapis's muster book....
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    HMS Hercules was a central-battery ironclad of the Royal Navy in the Victorian era, and was the first warship to mount a main armament of 10-inch (250 mm)...
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    will never surrender. On 23 September 1779, Capt. Richard Pearson of HMS Serapis, nailed the British ensign to the ensign staff with his own hands before...
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    HMS Monarch was the first seagoing British warship to carry her guns in turrets, and the first British warship to carry guns of 12-inch (300 mm) calibre...
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    In 1875, again at the invitation of the Prince of Wales, he joined HMS Serapis, which conducted the Prince on an official tour of India, 1875–76. Louis...
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