HMS ''Aboukir'' was a 90-gun

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ship of the line of the

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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

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seafront commemorates an outbreak of

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aboard her between 1873 and 1874.Hansard
/ref> HMS Aboukir Memorial at Southsea - geograph

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