HMS Aboukir (1848)

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. The navy refitted her with screw propulsion in 1858 and sold her in 1877. A monument on Southsea seafront commemorates an outbreak of Yellow Fever aboard her between 1873 and 1874.