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2 . H.M.S. Sirius.

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.

She had a displacement of 511 tons and after being burnt in a fire was bought and rebuilt by the Royal Navy in 1786 and renamed Sirius. She sailed under the command of Captain John Hunter and carried Arthur Phillip, the Governor of the colony which was to be established. She also carried Major Robert Ross commander of the marines responsible for guarding the convicts in the colony. The surgeons on this ship were George Bouchier Worgan and Thomas Jamison. She left Portsmouth on 13 May 1787, and arrived at Port Jackson on 26 January 1788. She remained in the colony until 2 October 1788 when she was sent from Port Jackson to the Cape of Good Hope to get flour and other supplies for the almost starving colony, a voyage that took over seven months.

On 19 March 1790 Sirius was wrecked on the reef at Norfolk Island while landing stores. With the settlement still on the brink of starvation this was a major catastrophe as it left the colonists with only one ship. Her crew was stranded there until 21 February 1791 when they were rescued and eventually returned to England. Hunter returned to New South Wales as Governor from 1795 to 1799.

Sirius' anchor was retrieved from the wreck site and is now mounted in Macquarie Place, Sydney.

See HMS Sirius for other ships of this name.

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• Captain  

• MORTON Micah   Master Sent home sick from Rio,  Captain John Hunter.

• KELTIE James  (Master)

• Lieutenants

• BRADLEY William   1st Lieutenant, Royal Navy, MAXWELL George William   (Lieutenant)
  Surgeon

• WORGAN George Bouchier  Surgeon JAMISON [JAMIESON] Thomas  Surgeon's mate , LOWES   Surgeon's mate WORGAN George Bouchier  Surgeon

• Quartermaster HACKING Henry 

• Midshipmen

• ALT Mathew Bowes  Midshipman

• BAILEY. N.  Midshipman

• BARROW   Midshipman

• BOND G.HMS  Midshipman, 

• BREWER Henry  Midshipman ,

• DONOVAN  Stephen   Midshipman ,

• FOWELL Newton   Midshipman

• HARRIS John William  Sirius Midshipman

• FERGUSON [FARGERSON, FERGUSSON] John  Midshipman 

• HOLT  Midshipman , HOLT Mrs.  Midshipman's wife Sent back on escort HMS Hyena  

• ORMSBY Irwin Midshipman

• POWELL Newton Midshipman

• RAPER George  Midshipman & Official Fleet Artist

• SEALLY  Midshipman Sent home sick from Rio

• SHORTLAND John Jnr  Midshipman

• WATERHOUSE William Henry 

• Coxswain

• HONE Henry

• Yoeman

• BUCKLEY Stephen 
  Mates

• BRYANT [BRYAN] John Mate ,

• CUNNINGHAM James   Master's mate

• HILL Francis  Master's mate

• SOUTHWELL Daniel  Mate

• Purser

• PALMER John 

• Gunners

• BRODIE [BROADY, BRODY] Walter   Armorer & Blacksmith

• MARA [O'MARA] John  Gunner's mate

• ROSS Peter Gunner

• Boatswain  

• BROOKS Thomas  Boatswain , BROOKS Deborah Boatswain's wife , BUCKLEY Stephen Boatswain's mate GRAVES George  Boatswain's mate

• Carpenter

• HAMBLEY William   HATHERLEY James  Carpenter's mate,  LIVINGSTONE James [John]  Carpenter . PARKER Charles   Carpenter  ,.. WESTBROOK William   Carpenter

• Cook.  

• DOUGLAS William 

• TURNER John   Cook's mate

• MEREDITH Frederick  (Baker )

• Sail maker

• WHITE Peter 

• WATSON Robert 

•  Servant

•  PRATER Charles

• Ship's Boy

• BUTLER Daniel

• Seaman

• ATWELL John   Seaman, 

• BEAR [BAIN, BAIRD?] David   Seaman. BELL Jonathan  Seaman , , BUDDLE Daniel   Seaman , BURNE Terence   Seaman  BRODY Walter Seaman
  CALDWELL Joseph Seaman CAVANOUGH Owen  Seaman  COVENTRY James   , CONWAY John  Seaman

• DeMALIEZ [De MALIEZ] Bernard's Personal servant to Arthur Phillip DODD [DODDS] Henry Edward  Servant to Arthur Phillip , DRUMMOND John Seaman

• ELLIS Walter   Seaman ,

• FREDERICK John   Seaman ,FITZGERALD Henry   Seaman

• HIBBS Peter  Seaman Also visited Botany Bay with Cook,  HENDERSON Robert  Seaman

• JEFFRIES Joseph Seaman ,

• McNEAL James  Seaman , MITCHELL William Seaman MORLEY Roger Seaman , PHILLIPS William  Seaman

• PAINTER James Seaman

• MOORE Edward Seaman Died on voyage  

• PROCTOR James  Seaman

• REID William Seaman

• SCOTT Thomas Seaman  , SHINE John Seaman

• WALKER David  Seaman WEBB Robert  Seaman WEBB Thomas   Seaman\WATSON Robert   Seaman  WILSON James  WESTBROOK William seaman, WILSON James

• Officials

• COLLINS David  Judge-Advocate

• FREEMAN Thomas Sirius Clerk

• MILLER Andrew  Commissary

• DODD Henry Edward    Agriculturalist

• WALKER David Clerk

• Unknown Positions

• CLARK Zachariah  CLAYTON John  COLLINS William  CONWAY John

• GUNN George

• HATHERLEY James HEALEY John 

• KERRIDGE Charles

• MORTON Micah 

  TURNER Susannah Turner

  ROTLEN Samuel 
   

• Major
• ROSS Robert  Major, Marine Commandant
• Captains
• HUNTER John  Captain of Sirius Later 2nd Governor of NSW, GOWAN John Marine Captain

References

Military records  ,Pay rolls, Pay Musters, Cemetery Records, Church Records & General Muster Records, Mitchell Library ,Sydney Australia

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