HMS Aboukir (1848)

HMS Aboukir was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched in 1848. The navy refitted her with screw propulsion in 1858 and sold her in 1877. A monument on Southsea seafront[1] commemorates an outbreak of Yellow Fever between 1873 and 1874.[2]

Memorial at Southsea

Aboukir

HMS Aboukir at Port Royal, Jamaica. circa 1865
History
UK
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:	3,099​^70⁄94 (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 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 ^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

Citations

1. Geograph
2. Hansard