HMS Dido (1836) was an 18-gun corvette launched in 1836, used as a coal hulk after 1860, and sold in 1903. Designed by Symonds and built at Pembroke. Took part in Syrian war of 1840 and Chinese war of 1842. In Pacific 1855. Became a coal-hulk at Sheerness and was sold in 1903.[1]
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 Eclipse-class screw corvette launched in 1869, hulked in 1886, renamed HMS Actaeon in 1906 and sold in 1922.
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