The frigate "HMS Serapis"., An elaborate, wooden model of a Royal Navy frigate. Fully rigged masts, open gun ports. Stern and rigging painted in colour. Length 100 cm. Width 36 cm. Height 84 cm. The HMS Serapis came off the ways in 1779 as a fifth rate ship of war. On 23 September of that same year, she engaged the weaker "Bonhomme Richard" under the command of the American Captain, John Paul Jones, in the North Sea. In spite of heavy damage to his ship, Jones refused to strike his colours with the words, "I have not yet begun to fight", and then boarded and ca,

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