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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 nineteenth centuries. ''Dido'' was commissioned in September 1787 under the command of Captain Charles Sandys. She participated in a notable action for which her crew would later be awarded the Naval General Service Medal; her participation in a campaign resulted in the award of another. ''Dido'' was sold for breaking up in 1817. ==''Vrai Patriote''== On 9 August 1793 ''Dido'' was patrolling off Norway when she encountered a French privateer. She drove the vessel ashore, and Lieutenant Edward Hamilton took a boat and eight men to take possession. The privateer was the ''Vrai Patriote'', of 13 guns and a crew of 45 men, whose crew had set her on fire before escaping ashore. Hamilton and his men extinguished the fire, the setting of which Hamilton considered a "base attempt" as had it been successful it would have deprived the British of prize money. Unwilling to let the matter go, Hamilton and his men pursued the privateers inland and captured 13 of them.〔Lavery ''et al''. (2009), p36.〕 The British then brought out the prize, for which prize money was paid in July 1799. Hamilton and his prize crew of two midshipmen and twenty sailors were taking ''Vrai Patriote'' back when they encountered the cutter . ''Nimble'' had been looking for privateer, and not realizing that the ''Dido'' had captured her, attempted to take ''Vrai Patriote''. Hamilton hoisted British colors over the French and sent his crew below decks while he attempted to convince ''Nimble'' that the French vessel was now in British hands. ''Nimble'', unconvinced, fired several broadsides into ''Vrai Patriote'' causing damage but no casualties. Eventually ''Nimble'' was convinced and ceased fire. ''Nimble'' herself suffered casualties when one of her guns burst.〔 ''Dido'' captured ''Révolution'', a French vessel possibly a navy corvette, on 8 October 1794 off Porto Mauruzio between Nice and Genoa.〔Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.178.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Dido (1784)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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