![]() Capture of La Minerve off Toulon, 24 June 1795 by Thomas Whitcombe. In the foreground the damaged and dismasted Minerve duels with HMS Dido, while in the background Artémise flees, pursued by Lowestoffe.
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Name | HMS Dido |
Ordered | 5 June 1782 |
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Laid down | September 1782 |
Launched | 27 November 1784 |
Completed | 15 March 1785 |
Commissioned | September 1787 |
Honors and awards |
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Fate | Sold to be broken up, 3 April 1817 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 595 39⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 33 ft 7 in (10.24 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 200 officers and men |
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HMS Dido was one of the twenty-seven Enterprise class of 28-gun sixth-rate frigates in service with the Royal Navy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dido was commissioned in September 1787 under the command of Captain Charles Sandys. She participated in a notable action for which her crew would later be awarded the Naval General Service Medal; her participation in a campaign resulted in the award of another. Dido was sold for breaking up in 1817.