Maritime History

HMS Sirius (1797)

HMS Sirius was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Between 1797 and 1805, the Sirius was engaged in maintaining the blockade of Napoleonic Europe. She was lost in 1810 when her crew scuttled her after she grounded during the Battle of Grand Port.

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See also

• ▸HMS Lyra (1808)
• ▸French ship Nestor (1793)
• ▸Japanese battleship Kirishima

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