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    HMS Dido was the name ship of her class of light cruisers for the Royal Navy. Constructed by Cammell Laird Shipyard of Birkenhead, United Kingdom, she...
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  • 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)...
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    original Dido-class ships HMS Bonaventure, HMS Charybdis, HMS Hermione and HMS Naiad were lost in the war. The sole survivor, name ship HMS Dido, was put...
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  • May 1941 HMS Orion (85) - Capt. GRB Back - damaged HMS Dido (37) - Capt. HWV McCall - damaged Destroyers HMS Decoy (H75) - Cmdr. EG McGregor HMS Hereward...
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    HMS Euryalus was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on 21 October 1937, launched on 6 June 1939, and commissioned...
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    HMS Dido was an 18-gun Daphne-class corvette built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. Dido had a length at the gundeck of 120 feet (36.6 m) and 99 feet...
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    HMS Spartan was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Bellona subgroup of the Royal Navy. She was a modified Dido design with only four turrets but improved...
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    HMS Charybdis was a Dido-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War and was sunk with heavy loss of life by German torpedo boats...
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    HMS Hermione was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons (Glasgow, Scotland), with the keel laid down...
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    HMS Dido was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. Eclipse-class second-class protected cruisers were preceded...
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