Name HMS Aboukir Laid down August 1840 Construction started August 1840 Builder HMNB Devonport | Ordered 18 March 1839 Completed 1 January 1858 Launched 4 April 1848 | |
Reclassified Depot ship/floating battery 1862
Receiving ship 1867 Fate Sold for breaking up on 23 November 1877 | ||
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.
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