b'110516Military515H.M.S. SIRIUS pressed copper and oak desk ornament mounted with four engraved plaques H. M. S. Sirus (sic), Wrecked Pointe Ross Reef, Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island In The Year Of Our Lord, 1790, Christ Is My Pilot And My Compass Is His Worde and Each Storm My Soule Defys While I Have Suche A Lord, unknown age but most likely 19th century,10cm high, 20cm wide, 15cm deepAt midday on the 19th March 1790, H.M.S .Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, was wrecked on the coral reef off Slaughter Bay. 515$1,5002,500'