Dido wanderer". According to Marie-Pierre Noël, "Elishat/Elisha" is a name repeatedly attested on Punic votives. It is composed of the Punic reflex of *ʾil- "god", the remote Phoenician creator god El, also a name for God in Judaism, and "‐issa", which could be either "ʾiš" (𐤀𐤎) means "fire", or another word for "woman". Other works state it is the feminine form of El. In Greek it appears as "Theiossô", which translates Élissa: "el" becoming "theos". This understanding of the chronology related to Dido and her company resulted in the following dates for Dido and her immediate relations, as derived from F.
HMS Dido (1896) HMS Dido (1896) HMS "Dido" was an protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. Eclipse-class second-class protected cruisers were preceded by the shorter Astraea-class cruisers. "Dido" had a displacement of when at normal load. It had a total length of , a beam of , a metacentric height of around , and a draught of . It was powered by two inverted triple-expansion steam engines which used steam from eight cylindrical boilers. Using normal draught, the boilers were intended to provide the engines with enough steam to generate and to reach a speed of ; using forced