Editing HMS Sidon

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Two ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Sidon''''' after the [[Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–41)|naval bombardment]] of [[Sidon]] a city in [[Lebanon]] in 1840.

* {{HMS|Sidon|1846}} was a first-class paddle [[frigate]] launched in 1846 and scrapped in 1864.
* {{HMS|Sidon|P259}} was a [[British S-class submarine (1931)|S-class]] [[submarine]] launched in 1944. She sank in [[Portland harbour]] in 1955 as a result of an accidental torpedo explosion, was subsequently raised and then sunk as a target in 1957.

==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}

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