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.
HMS Sirius was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Admiralty ordered her construction on 30 April 1795, and the keel was laid at the Dudman's yard in Deptford in September of that year. She was launched on 12 April 1797.
HMS Sirius was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, UK) , with the keel being laid down on 6 April 1938. She was launched on 18 September 1940, and commissioned 6 May 1942.