Updated September 5, 2025: Advance orders began shipping today. This is a limited edition. Once these are sold, we will not print more. As of this afternoon, we have from one to five pieces in each size left, but I expect that those won't last long. — Lee Wright | Founder
About the design, which features powerful symbols from the American Revolution:
- Two stars flank a coiled rattlesnake set against a field of blue.
- A dramatic depiction of tall ships locked in battle
- Seven bold red stripes, a nod to the American flag,
- Anchored by an emblem bearing John Paul Jones’s legendary battle cry:
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
Comes with a hang tag written by author J.L. Bell that includes a historical background about John Paul Jones's immortal quote, "I have not yet begun to fight!" The text from the hang tag is below.
The shirt:
- Crew neck: 100% cotton Made in the USA shirt in Heather grey. Grown, knitted, dyed, and sewn in the USA. 4.4 oz. S- 3XL. See size chart.
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John Paul Jones
John Paul, born in Scotland in 1747, went to sea at thirteen. By his early twenties, he was a captain - with a reputation for harshness after he killed a sailor in a fight over wages. To avoid legal troubles, John Paul adopted the surname "Jones" and sailed to America.
When thirteen British colonies allied to seek independence, John Paul Jons offered his maritime experience to their Continental Congress. As hard as Jones fought British armed ships, however, he feuded with other American captains more. Eventually Captain Jones was sent off to hunt British shipping in the eastern Atlantic alongside the French navy.
Jones's most famous fight was a ferocious battle off the English coast in September 1779. Invited to surrender his ship Bonhomme Richard, he declared, "I have not yet begun to fight," and captured the Royal Navy's Serapis. Jones sailed his new flagship into a neutral Dutch port.
At the time, American diplomats in Europe understood their flag to have a blue canton with thirteen white stars and "thirteen stripes, alternatively red, white, and blue." So that was how the Serapis's new flag was entered into Dutch records - not in accord with the Congress's 1777 guidelines.
At the end of the Revolutionary War, Jones received a French knighthood and became an admiral for Russia, but he still got into controversies. The mariner died on an American diplomatic mission in France in 1792. Historians drew on his reports and memoirs to make John Paul Jones a signal hero of the U.S. Navy
— John Bell, author, The Road to Concord and Boston1775 .