HMS Dido (1836)

Dido had a length at the gundeck of {{convert|120|ft|m|1}} and {{convert|99|ft|m|1}} at the keel. She had a beam of {{convert|37|ft|8|in|m|1}}, a draught of {{convert|14|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on|1}} and a depth of hold of {{convert|18|ft|m|1}}. The ship's tonnage was 734 {{fraction|10|94}} tons burthen.Winfield, p. 931 The Daphne class was armed with eighteen 32-pounder cannon. The ships had a crew of 145 officers and ratings that later increased to 175.Winfield & Lyon, p. 120

Dido, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,Colledge, p. 97 was ordered on 26 February 1834, Designed by Symonds, laid down in September 1834 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 13 June 1836. She was completed on 26 January 1837 at Sheerness Dockyard and commissioned on 25 October 1836.

{{stack|File:The Attack of Two Lanoon Pirate Proas on the Proa Jolly Batchelor, belonging to Rajah Brooks of Sarawak and manned by the crew of HMS Dido off Datto Point on the coast of Borneo at 3 a.m. May 21 1843 CKS 2000.jpg}}

In May 1843 Dido{{'}}s crew were manning the proa Jolly Batchelor, which belonged to Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, when they were attacked by two Lanoon pirate proas off Datto Point, Borneo at 3 am. The encounter ended in the destruction of one proa and the elimination of the crew of the other.{{cite web|title=The Attack of two Lanoon Pirate Proas on the Proa 'Jolly Batchelor'|url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/268605.html|website=Royal Museums Greenwich|access-date=31 March 2018}}

Dido arrived at Auckland, New Zealand from the East Indies Station on 2 June 1847.{{cite book |last1= Cowan |first1= James|title= The New Zealand Wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period, Volume I: 1845–1864 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cow01NewZ-c9.html|year= 1922 |publisher= R.E. Owen |location= Wellington |pages=73–87 |chapter= Chapter 9: The Capture of Rua-Pekapeka}}

File:H.M.S. Dido, 18. In the hurricane of January 21st 1856 off Raiatea, Pacific - RMG PY0870.jpg

File:H.M.S. Dido under jury rig, returning to Tahiti, January 22nd 1856 - RMG PY0871.jpg

She took part in Syrian war of 1840 and Chinese war of 1842. On 9 April 1852, she ran aground on the Wellsbank, off Callao, Peru.{{Cite news |title=West India and Mexican Mails |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=24 May 1852 |issue=1873 }} On 28 July 1852, she ran aground off Tahiti, damaging her forefoot and keel. She was ordered back to England for repairs.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping Intelligence |date=28 October 1852 |page=5 |issue=21258 |column=B }} In Pacific 1855. She was used as a coal hulk after 1860, at Sheerness and was sold in 1903.[http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/548739.html Wooden rectangular plaque for the full hull model of HMS Dido (1836), an 18 gun sixth rate sloop.]

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• {{Cite Colledge2006}}
• {{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Lawrie; Lieutenant Commander|title=Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History|date=2014|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK|isbn=978-0-7509-5214-9}}
• {{cite book|last1=Winfield|first1=Rif|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|date=2008|publisher=Seaforth|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=1-84415-700-8}}
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