&sq=&lang=&file=File:Shackleton_nimrod_85.jpg) Nimrod in Antarctic ice in 1908
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| History | |
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| Name | Nimrod |
| Namesake | Nimrod |
| Owner |
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| Operator | 1918: Emile Dickers |
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| Builder | A Stephen & Sons, Dundee |
| Yard number | 36 |
| Launched | 6 December 1866 |
| Completed | January 1867 |
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| Identification |
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| Fate | grounded and broke up, 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | whaler and seal hunter |
| Tonnage | 334 GRT, 227 NRT |
| Length | 136.0 ft (41.5 m) |
| Beam | 26.9 ft (8.2 m) |
| Depth | 16.0 ft (4.9 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
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| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan |
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| Speed | 6 knots (11 km/h) under steam |
| Crew | 1919: 12 |
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Nimrod was a wooden-hulled, three-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam engine that was built in Scotland in 1867 as a whaler. She was the ship with which Ernest Shackleton made his Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica in 1908–09. After the expedition she returned to commercial service, and in 1919 she was wrecked in the North Sea with the loss of ten members of her crew.