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HMS Aboukir at Port Royal, Jamaica. circa 1865
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History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Aboukir
Ordered 18 March 1839
Builder Devonport Dockyard
Laid down August 1840
Launched 4 April 1848
Completed 1 January 1858
Reclassified
  • Depot ship/floating battery 1862
  • Receiving ship 1867
Fate Sold for breaking up on 23 November 1877
General characteristics as built
Class and type Albion-class 90-gun second-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen 3,0997094 (bm)
Length
  • 204 ft (62 m) (gundeck)
  • 166 ft (51 m) (keel)
Beam 60 ft 2.25 in (18.3452 m)
Depth of hold 23 ft 8 in (7.21 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement 750 (peace)/820 (war)
Armament
  • 90 guns:
  • Lower gundeck: 4 × 68-pounder guns + 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32-pounder guns + 6 × 8-inch/68-pounder shell guns
  • Quarterdeck: 16 × 32-pounder guns + 2 × 8-inch/68-pounder shell guns
  • Forecastle: 8 × 32-pounder guns
General characteristics after conversion
Class and type Albion-class 90-gun second-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen 3,091 (bm)
Length
  • 204 ft (62 m) (gundeck)
  • 165 ft 4+14 in (50.400 m) (keel)
Beam 60 ft 1+14 in (18.320 m)
Depth of hold 23 ft 8+12 in (7.226 m)
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder horizontal trunk engine
  • Single screw
  • 400 nhp
  • 1,533 ihp
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Speed 9.55 knots (under steam)
Complement 830
Armament
  • 91 guns:
  • Lower gundeck: 32 × 8-inch guns
  • Upper gundeck: 32 × 32-pounder guns
  • QD/Fc: 26 × 32-pounder guns + 1 × 68-pounder gun

HMS Aboukir was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched in 1848.

Career

On 6 July 1861, Aboukir ran aground on Yeusta Skerry. Repairs cost £302. The navy refitted her with screw propulsion in 1858 and sold her in 1877. A monument on Southsea seafront commemorates an outbreak of Yellow Fever aboard her between 1873 and 1874.

HMS Aboukir Memorial at Southsea - geograph.org.uk - 1297404
Memorial at Southsea
'Albion' (1842), 'Aboukir' (1848); 'Exmouth' (1854); 'Princess Royal' (cancelled 1847); 'Hannibal' (cancelled 1847); 'Algiers' (cancelled 1847) RMG J1672
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