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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...

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)...

Dido Elizabeth Belle (June 1761 – July 1804) was a British gentlewoman. She was born into slavery and illegitimate; her mother, Maria Belle, was an enslaved...

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...

on 24 December 1796 HMS Dido 1784 – converted to troopship in 1800, hulked as Army prison ship at Portsmouth in 1804, sold 1817 HMS Circe 1785 – wrecked...

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...

children, including two daughters and a son, each by different women. One was Dido Elizabeth Belle, a mixed-race daughter born into slavery in 1761 in the West...

(1786–1859), English antiquarian Charles Sandys (captain), captain of HMS Dido (1784) Duncan Sandys (1908–1987), British politician Edwin Sandys (disambiguation)...

and renamed in 1795. Captured by HMS Dido on 13 April 1795. Recaptured the next month. Téméraire, a xebec. HMS Dido captured her on 9 July 1795 and the...

Preston commanded the frigate HMS Dido in the Mediterranean Sea until July of that year when he was transferred to HMS Boston, which he commanded until...

confronted in Parliament with a recent report from Italy of a keelhauling on HMS Alexandra, and denied that such an incident had taken place. Some historians...

Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. In 1787, Christian was appointed master's...

peace he travelled through France, but was recalled to serve aboard Perseus, Dido, and then Adamant, the flagship of Sir Richard Hughes on the North American...

HMS Terpsichore was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built during the last years of the American War of Independence...

The Devil Take Her, Benjamin, 1931 Dialogues des Carmélites, Poulenc, 1957 Dido and Aeneas, Purcell, 1689 Dienstag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1993 Djamileh...

bay east of Île Sainte-Marguerite. Téméraire was a cutter or xebec that HMS Dido captured in 1795 in the Mediterranean. The French navy had commissioned...

Sorrows, a title referring to Mary, the mother of Jesus DMP · 208 209 Dido – Dido, mythological Carthaginian queen DMP · 209 210 Isabella – Unknown origin...

lasting peace, while Tripoli was similarly coerced in 1686. In 1783 and 1784 the Spaniards bombarded Algiers in an effort to stem the piracy. The second...

Alexander (1784). "A narrative of the life and conversion of Alexander White, aet. 23. Who was executed at Cambridge, November 18, 1784, for the murder...

Wilkinson, Henry. Bermuda From Sail To Steam: The History Of The Island From 1784 to 1901. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Harris, Edward C. (1997). Bermuda...