HMS Aboukir (1900)
British Cressy-class armored cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Aboukir.
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Aboukir, port side, at Malta | |
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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) |
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Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Complement | 725–760 |
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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.