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HMS Aboukir - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Aboukir
Name : HMS Aboukir
Laid Down :
Launched : 16th May 1900
Completed :
Type : Cruiser
Class : Cressy
Builder : Fairfield
Country : UK
Sequence : This is the 5th ship with this name.
Pennants :
Fate : Sunk 22nd September 1914

HMS Aboukir Photos for Sale



HMS Aboukir, 1902.


HMS Aboukir, 1902.


HMS Aboukir, 1910.

Known Crew Details :

Name

Start of Service

End of Service

Known Date

John G L Baker

18th December 1907

Richard H L Bevan

18th December 1907

Henry J Cook

18th December 1907

Hugh S Currey

18th December 1907

Noel S Cutterbuck

18th December 1907

Harold E Dension

18th December 1907

Walter R Fendick

18th December 1907

Charles C Ennals

18th December 1907

Allison B Hall

18th December 1907

Claud A W Hamilton

18th December 1907

Geoffrey Maurice Ivan Herford

18th December 1907

Arthur C Horsley

18th December 1907

John D Jamieson

18th December 1907

Morris C Langford

18th December 1907

Harold Leather

18th December 1907

Joseph M Manton

18th December 1907

Charles Mitchell

18th December 1907

Frederick R Morris

18th December 1907

Percival T Nicholls

18th December 1907

Rev Arthur H H M Norregaard

18th December 1907

Hon Alexander R M Ramsay

18th December 1907

Philip A Sanderson

18th December 1907

John A Smith

18th December 1907

Hugh G C Somerville

18th December 1907

Campbell P Cotton Stapleton

18th December 1907

Charles A Starkey

18th December 1907

Wilfred D Stirling

18th December 1907

Alfred E Tayler

18th December 1907

Harold R Thrupp

18th December 1907

Morris V Varney

18th December 1907

Lindsay R Venn

18th December 1907

Herbert C Waldron

18th December 1907

Timeline Entries :


16th May 1900 - Launched
15th April 1903 - Arrived Bighi Bay
May 1903 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
5th August 1903 - On Fleet Maneouvres
5th August 1903 - Commenced Fleet Maneouvres
14th September 1903 - Anchored off Rosas
August 1904 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
August 1905 - Third Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet
June 1906 - In Commission, In Reserve, At Sheerness-Chatham
December 1907 - 3rd Cruiser Squadron Mediterranean
8th December 1907 - Captain Claud A. W. Hamilton in Command
December 1908 - 3rd Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet
December 1909 - 3rd Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet
10th February 1911 - Arrived Algiers from Gibraltar
17th February 1911 - Sailed Algiers
9th July 1912 - Spithead Review
22nd September 1914 - Sunk by torpedo

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In a 40 knot gale, Lt Col. Doolittles B25 hauls itself into the air. The first of a 16 strong strike force en route to Tokyo.

USS Hornet. Doolittles Raiders by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00 		Despite crippling damage to their Lancaster ED925 (G), the crew of AJ-M continued to press home their attack on the Mohne Dam on the night of 16th/17th May 1943. With both port engines ablaze, Flt Lt J V Hopgood forced his blazing aircraft on, releasing the Upkeep bomb just precious seconds too late to strike the dam, the mine instead bouncing over the wall and onto the power station below with devastating results. ED925 attempted to recover from the maelstrom, but the fuel fire was too intense and the aircraft was tragically lost, just two of her crew managing to escape the impact to spend the rest of the war as PoWs.

No Way Back by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £30.00 		A pair of De Havilland Mosquito NF. MkII night fighters of 23 Squadron, based at Bradwell Bay, Essex in 1942.

Night Raiders by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £52.50 		After take off a Sunderland of Coastal Command flies low over its base at Rosneath on the Gareloch, as Royal Navy battleships lay at anchor around the naval base of Faslane, near Helensburgh, Scotland during 1945.

Sunderland Over the Gareloch by Geoff Lea.
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Swordfish of 825 Sqn led by Lt-Cdr Esmonde begin their heroic attack on the battlescruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as they make their way up the English Channel from Brest during Operation Cerberus on 12th February 1942. Although all the aircraft were lost and no significant damage was done to the German fleet, all the pilots were decorated for their bravery and Lt-Cdr Esmonde received the first Fleet Air Arm VC to be awarded, albeit posthumously. The painting depicts the first wave of Swordfish attacking the Scharnhorst with Gneisenau taking avoiding action in the distance. A German torpedo boat has turned to confront the attacking aircraft.

Attack on the Scharnhorst by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		This aircraft is credited with flying 126 missions without an abort for the 447th Bomb Group and was one of only three original aircraft to survive the war and return to the US. To the left can be seen the famous A Bit O Lace. All these aircraft were based at Rattlesden. The scene is early 1945, the aircraft flying out to bomb rail marshalling yards.

Scheherazade by Tim Fisher.
Half Price! - £50.00 		Two Hawker Furies of No.1 Sqm, based at Tangmere in 1937.

Cloud Dancers by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £37.50 		Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion sort their kit out and get ready to enplane the waiting American Dakota C-47s of the 14 and 59 Squadrons/61st Troop Carrier Group. The paratroops took off simultaneously from Saltby and Barkston, commencing at 1121. All planes were in the air by 1155. A relatively uneventful trip over the northern route to the Netherlands resulted in not a plane being shot down; only five were slightly damaged. The 1st Battalion were dropped at 1403, 2nd Battalion at 1353 and the 3rd Battalion at 1356, all at DZ-X, west of Wolfhezen some eight miles west of Arnhem. The Battalion orders were for three different routes to the Arnhem Bridge. 1st Battalion took the Leopard route, 2nd Battalion Tiger route and the 3rd Battalion Lion route. Only the 2nd Battalion, commanded by Lt colonel John Frost managed to fight their way to the bridge.

Market Garden. Arnhem by Graeme Lothian. (P)
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Originally constructed as a Home Fleet Repair Ship, HMS Cyclops was later converted into a submarine depot ship and enjoyed a long career, both in the Mediterranean and in home waters. Here she prepares to receive HMS Sceptre. Another S-class submarine is already tethered alongside.

HMS Cyclops Prepares to Receive HMS Sceptre by Ivan Berryman (AP)
Half Price! - £45.00 		B63. HMS Malaya at Capetown by Ivan Berryman.

HMS Malaya at Capetown by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		On the 1st of August 1798, thirteen French ships of the line sat anchored in Aboukir Bay off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, in support of Napoleon who was inland with his troops attempting to conquer the country. As nighttime approached so did Lord Horatio Nelson and the British fleet. Nelson had been hunting Napoleon at sea for months; at Aboukir Bay he had found the French fleet, trapped and unprepared for battle. Nelsons audacious plan was to attack the French on their unprotected prot side, the plan had its risks; the whole of the British fleet could run aground in the shallows - but Nelson knew the waters too well. The Battle of the Nile was one of the most decisive in the history of naval warfare. By the end of the battle nearly all the French ships were sunk or captured. The 124-gun flagship - and the pride of the French navy - LOrient, had exploded with such ferocity that it halted the battle for over ten minutes. Napoleons ability to dominate the region had been crushed, whilst Nelson was to become a hero throughout the whole of Britain.

Battle of the Nile by Anthony Saunders. (Y)
Half Price! - £305.00 		HMS Prince of Wales is shown firing on the Bismarck and in the background a huge black cloud is all that is left of HMS Hood.

HMS Prince of Wales by Brian Wood (P)
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The destroyer HMS Kelly passes close to the old carrier HMS Eagle as she escorts a convoy in the Mediterranean early in 1941.

HMS Kelly by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		Depicting Titanic with the sun going down for the last time.

Titanic by Robert Barbour.
Half Price! - £35.00 		Sunset over Aboukir Bay on 1st August 1798 as ships of the Royal Navy, led by Nelson, conduct their ruthless destruction of the anchored French fleet. Ships shown from left to right. HMS Orion, Spartiate, Aquilon, Peuple Souvrain, HMS Defence, HMS Minotaur and HMS Swiftsure.

Battle of the Nile by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £60.00 		Viewed across the damaged stern of the 80-gun San Nicholas, Nelson drives HMS Captain onto the Spanish vessel in order that she can be boarded and taken as a prize, the British marines and men scrambling up the Captains bowsprit to use it as a bridge. The San Nicholas then fouled the Spanish three decker San Joseph (112), allowing Nelson and his men to take both ships as prizes in a single manoeuvre. A British frigate is moving into a supporting position in the middle distance.

HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent by Ivan Berryman.
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Depicting sergeant Ewart dispatching a French cavalryman on his way back with the Eagle and Standard captured from the French 45th Regiment of Foot.

Fight for the Standard by Richard Ansdell. (Y)
Half Price! - £25.00 		Probably depicts the rescue of gunners of the Royal Horse artillery (C-Battery) during the retreat from the battle of Maiwand.

Rescue of the Wounded by Lady Elizabeth Butler (Y)
Half Price! - £25.00 		This picture depicts the closing moments of the life of Socrates. Condemned to death or exile by the Athenian government for his teaching methods which aroused scepticism and impiety in his students, Socrates heroicly rejected exile and accepted death from hemlock. Here the philosopher continues to speak even while reaching for the cup, demonstrating his indifference to death and his unyielding commitment to his ideals. Jacques Louis David painted this historical picture in 1787. Commissioned by the Trudaine de Montigny brothers, leaders in the call for a free market system and more public discussion.

Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David. (Y)
Half Price! - £300.00 		A scouting party of the 8th regiment of Hussars in Napoleons First Empire army are seen resting their horses and in discussion.
Petit Poste de Grand Garde, Hussars of the 8th Regiment by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier.
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Braving intense enemy fire, Lt. Col. RB Mayne, Commanding Officer 1st SAS Regiment devastated a German ambush and subsequently rescued wounded troops of his own unit who had been pinned down while on a reconnaissance mission for the 4th Canadian Armoured Division.

Paddys Fourth DSO, The Olderburg Raid, 9th April 1945 by David Pentland. (GS)
Half Price! - £250.00 		T-34 85 tanks of the Polish Peoples Army Heroes of the Westerplatte 1st Armoured Brigade during the battle to break through the tough German defences of East Prussia.

Breaking of the Pomperanian Wall by David Pentland.
Half Price! - £50.00 		Private Thomas Brown of the 3rd kings own regiment of Dragoons, is knighted by King George the II, (The last reigning British Monarch to be at a Battle) Brown had recaptured the regimental guidon from the French during the battle.

King George II Knighting Trooper Brown After the Battle of Dettingen by J P Beadle (B)
Half Price! - £25.00 		British Vickers MKV1B Light tanks of the 3rd Hussars, 7th Armoured Division celebrate their part in the momentous victory over Italian forces in North Africa, February 1941.

Victory at Beda Fomm by David Pentland. (GS)
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Epsom Trophy, Polo Championship

Epsom Trophy by Mark Churms. (AP)
Half Price! - £30.00 		Celebrating Englands 1980 Five Nations Grand Slam. After the 70s had been dominated by the Welsh, England battled through an exceptionally tough campaign to win their first Grand Slam in 23 years.

1980 Grand Slam by James Owen. (Y)
Half Price! - £100.00 		MT26. Juan for Williams by Michael Thompson.
Juan for Williams by Michael Thompson.
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Jean Alesi/ Benetton B.196 by Ivan Berryman
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A cricketing genius, Sir Garfield Sobers excelled at all aspects of the game. One of his most memorable moments being the six consecutive sixes hit off one over. 

Sir Garfield Sobers by Gary Keane.
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Jenson Button 2004 BAR 006 by Ivan Berryman.
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Jeremy Guscott by Robert Highton.
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Lennox Lewis by Peter Deighan.
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