Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Serapis, after the god Serapis of Hellenistic Egypt.
was a 44-gun two-decker fifth rate launched in 1779 and captured later that year by the American John Paul Jones. She became a French privateer and was lost to a fire in 1781. was a 44-gun fifth rate, launched in 1782, converted to a storeship in 1795, and sold at Jamaica in 1826. was an iron screw in service from 1866 to 1894. was a World War I launched in 1918 and sold 1934. was a World War II S-class destroyer launched in March 1943, transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy in October 1945 as , and broken up in 1962.
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