Definitions for "HMS Sirius"
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Berwick was built by Watsons of Rotherhithe in 1780 for the East India trade. She is best known under the name HMS Sirius, as the flagship of the First Fleet, which set out from England in 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales.
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sirius after the brightest star in the nighttime sky.
HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN) built by H.M. Dockyard Portsmouth, and was the penultimate RN warship to be built there as of 2005 (although Vosper Thorneycroft have since begun building HMS Clyde at a private facility in Portsmouth ). She was launched on the 22nd September 1964 and commissioned on the 15th June 1966.