HMS Sirius (F40)

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History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Sirius
Builder	HMNB Portsmouth
Laid down	9 August 1963
Launched	22 September 1964
Commissioned	15 June 1966
Decommissioned	27 February 1993
Identification	F40
Motto	Heaven's light our guide
Fate	Sunk as target 1998
General characteristics
Class and type	Leander-class frigate
Displacement	3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load
Length	113.4 m (372 ft)
Beam	12.5 m (41 ft)
Draught	5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion	2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h)
Range	4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	223
Armament	As built: 1 × twin 4.5 inch (114 mm) guns 1 × quadruple Sea Cat anti-aircraft missile launchers 1 × Limbo anti-submarine mortar 2 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannon From 1980: 4 × Exocet anti-ship missile launchers 2 × quadruple Seacat anti-aircraft missile launchers 2 × single 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried	1 × Westland Wasp helicopter From 1980: 1 × Lynx helicopter

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 for a period of forty years, until Vosper Thornycroft built HMS Clyde. Sirius was launched on 22 September 1964 and commissioned on 15 June 1966. The ship continued in front line service until February 1992.