Dido with the timing of the tribute to Shalmaneser and the year when construction of the First Temple began provide evidence for the essential historicity of at least the existence of Pygmalion and Dido as well as their rift in 825 BC that eventually led to the founding of Carthage. According to J. M. Peñuela, the difference in the two dates for the foundation of Carthage has an explanation if we understand that Dido fled Tyre in 825 BC, but eleven years elapsed before she was given permission by the original inhabitants to build a city on the mainland, years marked
HMS Dido (37) "Dido" was sent to Scapa Flow for working up in September 1940. Part of this included high-speed sweeps off Fair Isle and Greenland. Immediately after this, "Dido"s first mission, in November 1940, was to escort the aircraft carrier to West Africa, ferrying aircraft. "Dido" then spent four months on convoy duty in the Atlantic before running supplies to Malta where she joined the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet in April 1941. In May of that year "Dido" was sent to Crete and assisted in the evacuation of the British forces. On 29 May 1941 "Dido" was badly damaged by bombs whilst taking