 She loses virtually every battle she's in off the coast of Colombia. She's destroyed. The crew catches a tropical disease, wipes out the crew. The captain of the ship dies mysteriously. So it gets a reputation as being a cursed ship. And of course, folks were a lot more superstitious back then. So no one wanted to serve on the ship. No one wanted to captain her. But she has one more major mission. That would be the Revolutionary War.