HMS Aboukir

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Four ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Aboukir .

  • HMS Aboukir (1789) , a third class ship of the line with 74 cannons, launched in 1789 as the French ship of the line Aquilon and captured by the Royal Navy in 1798 during the battle of Abukir . It was scrapped in 1802.
  • HMS Aboukir (1807) , a third class ship of the line with 74 cannons, launched in 1807. From 1824 only used at anchor and broken up in 1838.
  • HMS Aboukir (1848) , a 90-cannon second class ship of the line launched in 1848. Fitted with a screw drive in 1858 and sold in 1877.
  • HMS Aboukir (1900) , a Panzerkreuzer the Cressy class , the 1900 was launched. Sunk by the German U- 9 submarine on September 22, 1914 with two of its sister ships .

literature

  • JJ Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy, The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present . Chatham Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X , pp. 17 .