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	HMS Serapis (1779) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Serapis was a British frigate launched by the Royal Navy in 1779.
		HMS Serapis was designed as a 5th Rate vessel with 28 guns spread over two decks.
		On September 23, 1779, commanded by Captain Richard Pearson, she engaged the American warship USS Bonhomme Richard which was under the command of John Paul Jones in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Serapis_(1779) (195 words)

	HMS Serapis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Serapis was a 44-gun sailing frigate launched in 1779 and captured later that year by the American John Paul Jones.
		The second Serapis was a 44-gun sailing frigate launched in 1782, converted to a storeship in 1795, and sold at Jamaica in 1826.
		The fifth Serapis was a destroyer launched in March 1943, transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy in October as HNLMS Piet Hein, and broken up in 1962.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Serapis (180 words)

	Serapis
		Serapis was later stripped of her armament and sold at Lorient, France, to a French citizen who in turn sold her to the French Navy in whose service she was destroyed by fire in July 1781.
		Serapis, a steam sloop, was authorized in 1864 as one of eight “fast steamers of small class” for which machinery was to be built in idle machine shops in the Boston and Brooklyn Navy Yards.
		Serapis was named when construction of her machinery was approved on 2 October 1864, but her hull was never ordered—first due to lack of building ways and then to retrenchment following the Civil War.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s10/serapis.htm (387 words)

	Serapis Project \| History of HMS Serapis
		H.M.S. Serapis, with the sinking Bonhomme Richard in the foreground.
		In 1779, England was embroiled in a bitter political and military conflict with its colonies in the New World and their French allies.
		On September 23, 1779, John Paul Jones stood issuing battle orders from the deck of the French Bon Homme Richard as the ship was locked in battle with Serapis.
	serapisproject.org /history.html (555 words)

	Bonne Homme Richad vs Serapis
		The most remarkable single ship duel of the American Revolution was between the Bonne Homme Richard commanded by John Paul Jones and the HMS Serapis.
		The Serapis was a 50 gun ship that outgunned the Bonne Homme Richard which was barely sea worthy.
		When the captain of the Serapis hailed the Bonne Homme Richard and demanded surrender, John Paul Jones answered:" Surrender be dammed, I have not begun to fight." The Bon Homme Richard went on the vanquish the Serapis.
	www.multied.com /revolt/BonneHome.html (99 words)

	From Dictionary of American Fighting Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She was placed at the disposal of John Paul Jones 4 February 1779 by the French King and renamed Bonhomme Richard.
		On 19 June 1779 Bonhomme Richard sailed from L'Orient accompanied by Alliance, Pallas, Vengeance, and Cerf with troop transports and merchant vessels under convoy to Bordeaux and to cruise against the British in the Bay of Biscay.
		On 23 September 1779 they encountered the Baltic Fleet of 41 sail under convoy of HMS Serapis (44) and Countess of Scarborough (22) near Flamborough Head.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/frigates/bon_h_ri.htm (231 words)

	Timeline 1771-1779 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1779 Jul 24, The Siege of Gibraltar by the Spanish and French was begun.
		1779 Oct 9, The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton.
		1779 Frances Trollope was born the daughter of a clergyman and raised near Bristol.
	bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/1771_1779.HTML (14279 words)

	Liberty's Kids . Archive . John Paul Jones
		Early in 1779, the French King gave Jones a ship which Jones repaired and renamed Bonhomme Richard in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
		On 23 September 1779, his ship fired upon the HMS Serapis.
		His response to the command to surrender, "I have not yet begun to fight," has become a famous Navy slogan representing heroism in the face of defeat.
	www.libertyskids.com /arch_who_jpjones.html (161 words)

	Ldot Vets - The American Revolution 1775-1783
		Early in 1779, the French King gave Jones an ancient East Indiaman Duc de Duras, which Jones refitted, repaired, and renamed Bon Homme Richard as a compliment to his patron Benjamin Franklin.
		On 23 September 1779, his ship engaged the HMS Serapis in the North Sea off Famborough Head, England.
		Richard was blasted in the initial broadside the two ships exchanged, loosing much of her firepower and many of her gunners.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/Ldotvets/Revolution/BonneHomme.html (213 words)

	In English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On September 23, 1779 a fleet of 40 British merchantmen returning from the Baltic with ship building supplies was being
		Serapis sank off Madgascar in 1781 when a dropped lantern ignited spilled brandy.
		Four subsequent ships were named Serapis - the latest being a destroyer given to the Dutch in 1943 and
	www.logovox.com /Serapis.htm (592 words)

	Nautical terms and Phrses
		During the battle between Continental Navy ship Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis, Bonhomme Richard‘s ensign was shot away.
		When the captain of Serapis saw that the colors on Bonhomme Richard were down, he asked Jones if he had struck.
		In 1807, when the captain of United States frigate Chesapeake refused to permit officers of HMS Leopard to search her for deserters from the Royal Navy, Leopard ranged along side Chesapeake and fired into her for ten minutes until Chesapeake struck her colors as a token of surrender.
	www.history.navy.mil /trivia/trivia03-1.htm (1226 words)

	I have not yet begun to fight! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On the evening of September 23, 1779, they encountered the Baltic Fleet of 41 near the English shore of Flamborough Head.
		Sailing for England, the Fleet was under convoy of the newly built frigate HMS SERAPIS (50 guns) and the small sloop COUNTESS OF SCARBOROUGH (20 GUNS).
		To offset the SERAPIS' speed, Jones lashed his flagship alongside and continued the fight long after his subordinates regarded the situation as hopeless.
	www.lhd6.navy.mil /_files/history/serapisbattle.htm (423 words)

	Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
		Jones maneuvered BONHOMME RICHARD towards HMS SERAPIS but refused to answer the latter’s signals until the two ships were less than 50 meters apart.
		SERAPIS continued firing with such intensity that both ships were soon ablaze.
		SERAPIS landed at Texel, the Netherlands, on October 4, and from 1779 to 1781 she was on the lists of the French Navy.
	www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam0505.htm (959 words)

	Historical Center To Join Search For John Paul Jones' Ship
		Jones is forever immortalized by uttering the words, "I have not yet begun to fight", during the battle between his ship Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis, off the coast of England in 1779.
		One of the most memorable battles of the American Revolution took place off the coast of England Sept. 23, 1779, between the British ship HMS Serapis and Bonhomme Richard, captained by Jones.
		Discovery of the shipwreck will shed new light on the horrific battle between Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, what life was like on board Bonhomme Richard for the officers and crew, ship's armament and weaponry, and the construction of the ship itself,” said Dr. Robert Neyland, head of the NHC Underwater Archaeology Branch.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=20420 (766 words)

	Seacoast NH - John Paul Jones Hotlinks
		John Paul Jones defeated the HMS Serapis in 1779, Named in honor Benjamin Franklin the Revolutionary War ship captured or sank forty British fighting ships, earning the nickname 'The Lucky Sloop'.
		HMS is a voluntary organization affiliated to the Napoleonic Association.
		An intriguing sites leading to info on the Royal Naval Museum, HMS Victory and Warrior, and the amazing story of the Mary Rose, discovered after 437 years underwater.
	seacoastnh.com /jpj/links.html (471 words)

	Image Gallery: NAVAL HISTORY IN THE AGE OF SAIL (1650-1815)
		She was captured by the Royal Navy at Strachan's Action on 3 November 1805 and, after rebuilding, became HMS Implacable.
		HMS Foudroyant was built at Plymouth dockyard and launched 31 March, 1798.
		She had a builders measure of 2.062 tons, was 184 feet long and 52.5 feet in Beam.
	www.europa.com /~bessel/Naval/Navimgs.html (312 words)

	History Corner
		Apr 28 After a mutiny on HMS BOUNTY, Captain Bligh and 18 sailors were cast adrift in a small boat in the South Pacific.
		6 HMS Eagle, the British Flagship, was attacked by the submarine AMERICAN TURTLE in New York harbor in the first attack by a submarine.
		(1779) [The Ancient Mariner notes that this was the epitome of naval battles.
	www.hiltonheaddlc.com /history_corner.htm (6942 words)

	VENTURA COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM ventura.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		HMS IRIS (ex HANCOCK) (1777) - Continental navy 32 gun frigate, captured by british, 1/4"(?), plank on frame, by J.M. Brown
		HMS SERAPIS (1779) - British 44 gun frigate, 1/8", plank on frame, captured by John P. Jones
		HMS MARS (1793) - British 74 gun ship of the line, 1/4", plank on frame, Dockyard type model- Adm Hood's ship at Trafalgar.
	www.naut-res-guild.org /mis/ventura.html (1737 words)

	Marshall Islands: C217 Naval Anniversaries
		It also marks the 225th Anniversary of the USS Bonhomme Richard's historic gun battle with the HMS Serapis.
		In 1779, he returned to Hawaii, where he died in Kealakekua Bay.
		On September 23, 1779, it engaged in a dramatic gun battle in the North Sea with the British frigate HMSSerapis.
	www.unicover.com /H0003990.htm (422 words)

	DefenseLINK News: NAVY TO COMMISSION AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6) IN PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
		The first was a frigate built in France in 1765 for the East India Company, for service between France and the Orient.
		The French government placed the ship at the disposal of John Paul Jones in February 1779.
		Capt. Jones renamed the ship "Bonhomme Richard." It was from the frigate's deck, during an epic sea battle that ended with a daring capture of the 44-gun British frigate HMS Serapis in 1779, that a wounded Capt. Jones issued his immortal refusal to surrender,
	www.defenselink.mil /releases/1998/b08141998_bt429-98.html (566 words)

	Color Guard History and Accomplishments
		This is the flag used on board the captured British ship Serapis in 1779 by Captain John Paul Jones.
		Sometime between then and a few days later when they replied to the British that they had evidence in their files that the flag used on the Serapis was a recognized flag and that Jones would be allowed to refit, a painting of this flag (and that of the Alliance) was made.
		Besides the unconventional use of blue stripes as well as white and red, if you examine the painting closely you will see there are 12 eight pointed stars and one seven pointed star on the flag.
	www.southcoastsar.org /ColorGuard.htm (1155 words)

	In the navy! John Paul Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In her review of Evan Thomas’s new biography on John Paul Jones, the New York Times’s Janet Maslin makes a shocking comment about America’s first naval hero: “Thus galvanized to commit feats of what now look like terrorism, he [John Paul Jones] challenged Britain's complacency about its naval power.”
		A genuine hero of the Revolutionary War, Jones raided British commerce and won a series of stunning actions against the vastly superior Royal Navy, notably against HMS Drake (1777) and HMS Serapis (1779), all of which were completely legitimate acts of war, both then and now.
		This kind of offhand relativist smear is sad, especially at a time when the Navy Jones helped build is engaged in a struggle against real terrorists.
	annsbox.com /logger/archive/archi.cgi?read=1924 (382 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Off the North Irish coast at Carrickfergus, in 1778, Captain Jones was able to do just that...
		he captured the more powerful British Sloop of War, HMS DRAKE, securing America's first victory against a shocked British fleet.
		And against the HMS SERAPIS, in 1779, Jones was losing the battle and was challenged by his foe to surrender his ship, the BONNE HOMME RICHARD...
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/people/secnav/dalton/speeches/jpj0706.txt (709 words)

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		HMS Gannet (1878 composite sail/steam sloop) and HMS Ocelot (sub).
		Rose, Royal Naval Museum, HMS Victory and HMS Warrior.
		AV briefing and tour of HMS Alliance (1947).
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	Revolutionary America! Where Did We Go From There? The Continental Navy--John Paul Jones
		MUSKET used by John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard during the battle with the Serapis, and presented by Jones to Benjamin Franklin (the ship's namesake)
		He joined the Continental Navy and sailed to the British Isles where his seizures of merchant ships won him worldwide fame.
		In mid-August 1779 as captain of the Bonhomme Richard (Benjamin Franklin's French nickname), Jones squared up against the British frigate HMS Serapis in one of the hardest-fought battles in naval history.
	hoover.archives.gov /exhibits/RevAmerica/4-Where/JPJ.html (245 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		HMS (1768) British collier, Ventura County Maritime Museum
		SEAHORSE HMS (1748) 36 gun frigate, Ventura County Maritime Museum
		SERAPIS HMS (1779) 44 gun frigate, Ventura County Maritime Museum
	www.naut-res-guild.org /sources_models.htm (2103 words)

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