Dido Dido (which is a question independent of whether or not she ever met Aeneas) can be associated with evidence for the historicity of others in her family, such as her brother Pygmalion and their grandfather Balazeros. Both of these kings are mentioned, as well as Dido, in the list of Tyrian kings given in Menander of Ephesus's list of the kings of Tyre, as preserved in Josephus's "Against Apion", i.18. Josephus ends his quotation of Menander with the sentence "Now, in the seventh year of his [Pygmalion's] reign, his sister fled away from him and built the city of Carthage
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