HMS Aboukir (1848)

HMS Aboukir at Port Royal, Jamaica. circa 1865
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 & type	Albion-class 90-gun second-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	3,09970⁄94 (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 & 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+1⁄4 in (50.400 m) (keel)
Beam	60 ft 1+1⁄4 in (18.320 m)
Depth of hold	23 ft 8+1⁄2 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.

On 6 July 1861, Aboukir ran aground on Yeusta Skerry. Repairs cost £302.^[1] The navy refitted her with screw propulsion in 1858 and sold her in 1877. A monument on Southsea seafront^[2] commemorates an outbreak of Yellow Fever aboard her between 1873 and 1874.^[3]