HMS Aboukir (1900)

	Aboukir, port side, at Malta
History
United Kingdom
Name	Aboukir
Namesake	Battle of Aboukir Bay
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding, Govan
Laid down	9 November 1898
Launched	16 May 1900
Completed	early 1902
Commissioned	3 April 1902
Fate	Sunk by U-9, 22 September 1914
General characteristics
Class and type	Cressy-class armoured cruiser
Displacement	12,000 long tons (12,000 t) (normal)
Length	472 ft (143.9 m) (o/a)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.2 m)
Draught	26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) (maximum)
Installed power	30 Belleville boilers; 21,000 ihp (16,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × triple-expansion steam engines;
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	725–760
Armament	2 × single 9.2 in (234 mm) guns; 12 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns; 12 × single 12 pdr (3 in (76 mm)) 12-cwt guns; 3 × single 3 pdr (47 mm (1.9 in)) guns; 2 × single submerged 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Belt: 2–6 in (51–152 mm); Decks: 1–3 in (25–76 mm); Barbettes: 6 in; Turrets: 6 in;

53°N 3.75°E / 53; 3.75

HMS Aboukir was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet and spent most of her career there. Upon returning home in 1912, she was placed in reserve. Recommissioned at the start of the First World War, she played a minor role in the Battle of Heligoland Bight a few weeks after the beginning of the war. Aboukir was sunk by the German submarine U-9, together with two of her sister ships, on 22 September 1914; 527 men of her complement died.

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