The Serapis is best known for being the opponent of the Bonhomme Richard under the command of John Paul Jones. Her story did not end with the famous words "I have not yet begun to fight" however. Starting her life as a fifth rate Roebuck class ship in the British Navy, she went on to be John Paul Jones's next ship, before being transferred to the French Navy. She would end her life off of the coast of Madagascar, engulfed in flames due to a particularly stupid mistake. 

Ship Name: HMS Serapis 

Ship Type: Roebuck Class Fifth Rate 

Built: 1779 

Tonnage: 880

Sank: Ile Sainte-Marie, Madagascar 

Year Sank: 1781 

Sources: 

https://news.usni.org/2019/03/29/u-k-firm-claims-found-famed-u-s-warship-bonhomme-richard-experts-arent-sure

https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/whoi-ship-hunts-for-revolutionary-war-wreck/

https://mua.apps.uri.edu/project_journals/serapis08/report.pdf

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-30-02-0366

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45011/45011-h/45011-h.htm

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_458176

https://www.post-journal.com/news/page-one/2017/07/mcclurg-museum-home-to-revolutionary-war-era-british-cannon/

Shipwrecks of Madagascar By Pierre Van den Boogaerde

http://www.serapisproject.org/history.html