 HMS Sirius (1890)

HMS "Sirius" was an of the British Royal Navy which served from 1892 to 1918 in various colonial posts such as the South and West African coastlines and off the British Isles as a hastily converted minelayer during the First World War.The Naval Defence Act 1889 resulted in orders being placed for 21 second-class protected cruisers of the , of which, two, HMS "Sirius" and , were ordered from Armstrong's Elswick shipyard.