HMS Aboukir (1848)

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

HMS Aboukir (1848)
Career (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 & 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 4.25 in (50.4000 m) (keel)
Beam:	60 ft 1.25 in (18.3198 m)
Depth of hold:	23 ft 8.5 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 Quarterdeck/Forecastle: 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. She was refitted with screw propulsion in 1858 and was sold in 1877. A monument on Southsea seafront commemorates an outbreak of Yellow Fever between 1873 and 1874.