HMS Dido

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Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Dido, after Dido, the legendary founder and queen of Carthage.

• HMS Dido (1784) was a 28-gun sixth-rate launched in 1784 and sold in 1817.
• HMS Dido (1836) was an 18-gun corvette launched in 1836, used as a coal hulk after 1860, and sold in 1903.
• HMS Dido was to have been a wooden screw-propelled corvette. Laid down on 14 January 1861, construction was cancelled on 12 December 1863.
• HMS Dido (1869) was a wooden screw corvette launched in 1869, hulked in 1886, renamed Actaeon in 1906 and sold in 1922.
• HMS Dido (1896) was an Eclipse class second class cruiser launched in 1896, used as a depot ship after 1913 and sold in 1926.
• HMS Dido (37) was a Dido class light cruiser, launched on July 18, 1939 and broken up in 1958.
• HMS Dido (F104) was a Leander-class frigate launched in 1961. She was sold to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1983 and was renamed HMNZS Southland. She was decommissioned in 1995 and sunk to form an artificial reef.

There was also a 38-gun fifth rate frigate named HMS Didon, captured from the French in 1805 and broken up in 1811.