HMS Dido

Seven ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Dido after Dido , the legendary founder and Queen of Carthage .

• HMS Dido (1784) , a28-gun frigate launched in 1784 and sold for scrapping in 1817.
• HMS Dido (1836) , an18-cannon corvette that was launched in 1836,servedas a coal hulk from 1860and was sold in 1903.
• HMS Dido was planned as a wooden screw-propelled corvette. The keel was laid in 1861, but construction ceased in December 1863.
• HMS Dido (1869) , a wooden Eclipse-class screw-propelled corvettelaunched in 1869, converted to a Hulk in 1886, renamed HMS Actaeon in1906,and sold in 1922.
• HMS Dido (1896) , anEclipse-class cruiser launched in 1896, served as a depot ship from 1913 and sold in 1926.
• HMS Dido (37) was a Dido-class light cruiser thatwas launched in 1939 and sold for scrapping in 1958.
• HMS Dido (F104) was a frigate of the Leander class , which in 1961 was launched. It was sold to New Zealand in1983and renamed HMNZS Southland . In 1995 it was finally decommissioned and sunk as an artificial reef.