Английская Википедия:HMS Dido (1836)

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HMS Dido was an 18-gun Шаблон:Sclass built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s.

Description

Dido had a length at the gundeck of Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert at the keel. She had a beam of Шаблон:Convert, a draught of Шаблон:Convert and a depth of hold of Шаблон:Convert. The ship's tonnage was 734 Шаблон:Fraction tons burthen. 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.

Construction and career

Dido, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy, 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.

Файл: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

Attack of two Lanoon pirate proas on the proa Jolly Batchelor

In May 1843 DidoШаблон:'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.

Dido arrived at Auckland, New Zealand from the East Indies Station on 2 June 1847.

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

Dido, in the hurricane of 21 January 1856 off Raiatea, Pacific

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

Dido, under jury rig, returning to Tahiti on 22 January 1856

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. On 28 July 1852, she ran aground off Tahiti, damaging her forefoot and keel. She was ordered back to England for repairs. In Pacific 1855. She was used as a coal hulk after 1860, at Sheerness and was sold in 1903.

References

• Шаблон:Cite Colledge2006
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Winfield

External links

• Шаблон:Commons category-inline