HMS Serapis
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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Serapis, after the god Serapis of Hellenistic Egypt.
- 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.