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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Aboukir.

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.[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]

Memorial at Southsea
Aboukir

Citations

  1. ^ "Naval Disasters Since 1860". Hampshire Telegraph. No. 4250. Portsmouth. 10 May 1873.
  2. ^ Geograph
  3. ^ Hansard


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Aboukir_(1848)