Nevertheless, that was a most disastrous cruise for the _Saratoga_. With her prizes she sailed for the Delaware, but she fell in with the _Intrepid_, a ship of seventy-four guns, on duty there. Ordering her prizes to scatter, she made all sail, and with success, for she got away. But she found an enemy more powerful even than a ship-of-the-line. She found, doubtless, an October hurricane, for she was never heard of after she disappeared from the view of the _Intrepid’s_ lookouts. The prizes, too, were all recaptured. So five warships only were left to carry the American flag. Another was building at Portsmouth, New Hampshire--the _America_, a seventy-four-gun ship-of-the-line. John Paul Jones was assigned to her, but before she was launched, the French ship-of-the-line _Magnifique_ was wrecked in the Massachusetts Bay, and the Congress, to show its appreciation of what the French had done to help the United States, presented the _America_, while still on the ways, to the French king. That act was crushing to John Paul Jones; but when all was ready for the launching, he hoisted the flags of both nations, and so sent her into the water. And that was the last service he rendered his adopted country. No other ship fit for the head man of the navy remained afloat, and the Congress could not build another like the _America_. And then came the end of the war, when Jones entered the Russian service, subject to a call at any time from the American Congress, and without sacrificing his American citizenship, and there he became a rear admiral. Leaving that service, he was appointed American consul to Algiers, a most important post, as will appear further on; but before the slow mail brought his commission he died in Paris on July 18, 1792. To return once more to the frigate _Trumbull_, it must be said that if any doubt as to his courage or persistency was created in the minds of the American people when he abandoned the grounded _Virginia_ without firing a gun in her defence, Captain Nicholson redeemed himself in his last battle in the _Trumbull_, even though he lost her. The _Trumbull_ sailed in August, 1781, as an escort for a fleet of twenty-eight merchantmen. If her crew was inefficient when she fought the privateer _Watt_, it was now well-nigh the worst conceivable for the occasion; for in numbers she lacked 200 men of a full complement--she had less than half the number needed to work and fight the ship--while of the hundred and odd men she did carry, many were landsmen, and a lot more were Englishmen, who, on learning that she was certain to go to sea short-handed, shipped in her in the hope of finding opportunity for a mutiny. This was not an unusual circumstance during the Revolution, for the British Parliament had passed an act offering a large bounty to her “loyal subjects” who, after making oath to support the American Constitution, should be able to carry an American ship into a British port.