page_title: HMS Dido (1869)
section_title: West Africa Station and the First Boer War (1879 - 1881)
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Dido (1869) / History / West Africa Station and the First Boer War (1879 - 1881)
caption_attribution_description: English: Caricature of Admiral Compton Edward Domvile. Caption read "40 HP in a dingy".
context_page_description: HMS Dido was an Eclipse-class wooden screw sloop built for the Royal Navy in 1869. She was the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was reclassified in 1876 as a corvette, and in 1906 renamed Actaeon II. She served as a mine depot ship and was merged into the Torpedo School at Sheerness, being sold for breaking in 1922.
context_section_description: Dido served on the West Africa Station, where Captain Wright died in command on 19 August 1879. He was succeeded by Captain Compton Edward Domvile on 19 September 1879.
  In 1881 Dido contributed 50 men and two field guns to a Naval Brigade, which went to the front under Lieutenant Henry Ogle. Dido lost 3 killed and 3 wounded at the Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February.  Captain Compton Domvile went to the front to take charge of the Naval Brigade, but no further action took place before the end of the war on 23 March.
caption: Compton Edward Domvile in a Leslie Ward caricature
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