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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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    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 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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    following the loss of HMS Jersey to a mine and the subsequent clearance of her wreck, the flotilla left Malta and joined Ajax, Dido, Orion and Perth to...
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    HMS Diadem 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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  • Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759 and sold in 1784. HMS Temeraire was a cutter or xebec that HMS Dido captured in 1795 in the Mediterranean. The French...
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  • uboat.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "Dido Class Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history...
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  • HMS Euryalus (42), launched 1939, was a Dido-class cruiser. In World War II she was damaged at the Second Battle of Sirte in 1942. HMS Euryalus (F15), launched...
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  • HMS Phoebe (43), a Dido-class light cruiser launched in 1939. HMS Phoebe (F42), a Leander-class frigate launched in 1964. The ship played the fictional HMS Hero (F42)...
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    HMS Argonaut was a Dido-class cruiser of the British Royal Navy which saw active service during the Second World War. Constructed at the Cammell Laird...
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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 Cleopatra was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK), with...
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    HMS Naiad was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy which served in the Second World War. She was sunk in action on 11 March 1942 south of Crete...
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  • broken up in 1898. HMS Naiad (1890), an Apollo-class second class protected cruiser launched in 1890 and sold in 1922. HMS Naiad (93), a Dido-class cruiser...
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  • 1921. HMS Hermione (74) was a Dido-class light cruiser, launched in 1939. She was sunk in the Mediterranean by the German submarine U-205 in 1942. HMS Hermione (F58)...
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    HMS Phoebe was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Govan, Scotland), her keel...
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    HMS Sirius was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, United Kingdom), with the keel being laid...
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    HMS Scylla was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Greenock, Scotland), with the keel...
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    HMS Bonaventure was the lead ship of the Dido-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1930s and during the Second World War. Completed...
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  • carrier HMS Argus (I49) HMS Hermes (95) HMS Unicorn (I72) 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) HMS Audacity HMS Archer (D78) Avenger-class...
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    cruisers HMS Dido HMS Euryalus (slightly damaged) HMS Cleopatra (seriously damaged) 14th Destroyer Flotilla HMS Jervis HMS Kipling HMS Kelvin HMS Kingston...
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    class were built: HMS King George V (commissioned 1940), HMS Prince of Wales (1941), HMS Duke of York (1941), HMS Anson (1942) and HMS Howe (1942). The...
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  • 1910 and was broken up in 1920. HMS Bonaventure (31) was a Dido-class light cruiser launched in 1939 and sunk in 1941. HMS Bonaventure (F139) was an ‘X’...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Black Prince (81)
    HMS Black Prince was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, of the Bellona subgroup. The cruiser was commissioned in 1943, and served during World...
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    HMS Bellona was the name ship of her sub-class of light cruisers for the Royal Navy. She was the first of the fourth group of Dido-class cruisers. Built...
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    HMS Royalist was a Bellona-class (improved Dido-class) light cruiser of the Royal Navy (RN) during the Second World War. After commissioning in 1943,...
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    reinforce Crete. She deployed with HMS Janus, HMS Hasty and HMS Hereward as a screen for the cruisers HMS Dido, HMS Orion and HMS Ajax. They formed Force D, and...
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