Nimrod (ship)

The Nimrod was originally produced for the purpose of seal hunting schooner with a standard displacement of 334 tons. It was built in the year 1865/6 by Alexander Stephens & Son in Dundee from oak, green heart and iron bark wood. The ship that operates in the whale and seal hunting Job Brothers shipping company from Liverpool, the home port of Nimrod was commissioned but was St. John's, Newfoundland. the construction decreed the ship on an established at the shipyard Westray Copeland & Company in Barrow -in -Furness two-cylinder steam engine with an output of 60 hp nominal.

Ernest Shackleton acquired the ship in 1907 for his first Antarctic expedition for the price of £ 5,000. He had it rebuilt to a Barquentine with square sails on the foremast and gaff sails wholesale and mizzen mast in the shipyard of R. & H. Green at Blackwall Yard in London's East End. In addition, the Nimrod was a motor with a nominal 60 hp, which allows it reached 6 knots under steam and daily consumed four tons of coal in calm weather.

After completion of the expedition and return to the UK, the Nimrod was first used as a museum ship, but was then sold to pay part of the cost of the Nimrod Expedition. On 31 January 1919, the ship came to an end when it ran off the coast of Norfolk on the cliffs of the Barber Sands and sank. Only two men of the twelve -man crew survived.