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. North America and West Indies Station (1881 - 1886) The ship was re-assigned to the North America and West Indies Station, based at the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda, in October 1881. In 1883, Dido as specially prepared to carry Princess Louise from Charleston, South Carolina, to winter in Bermuda, embarking the Princess at Charleston at 17:00 on the 24 January and arriving about noon on the 29 January at Grassy Bay (the anchorage of the Fleet in the Great Sound), from where the Princess was carried by HM Tender Supply to Hamilton Harbour, then rowed ashore to Front Street in the City of Hamilton where the Governor and military Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda, Lieutenant-General Thomas LJ Gallwey, waited. From there the ship was steamed to Barbados, to be paid off on 16 February 1883. The paid off crew returned to England, via Bermuda, aboard HMS Tamar. On recommissioning Captain Frederick Samuel Vander-Meulen commanded her on the station until 1886, when she returned home to Portsmouth. Hulk (1886) On 25 September 1886 Dido paid off at Portsmouth and her sea-going equipment was removed so that her hull could be used for accommodation and storage. She served as a mine depot in the Firth of Forth, and in 1906 her name was changed to Actaeon II. She became part of the Torpedo School at Sheerness. Disposal Actaeon II was sold to J B Garnham for breaking on 17 July 1922. Commanding officers References Bibliography Eclipse-class sloops 1869 ships Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom Victorian-era corvettes of the United Kingdom