Nimrod (ship)

Nimrod in Antarctic ice in 1908
History
Name	Nimrod
Namesake	Nimrod
Owner	1867: Thomas Job 1888: Job Brothers 1907: William Beardmore 1911: Sir Ernest Shackleton 1913: Roland Webster 1918: The SS Nimrod Ltd
Operator	1918: Emile Dickers
Port of registry	1867: Liverpool 1889: St John's, Newfoundland 1907: London 1913: London
Builder	A Stephen & Sons, Dundee
Yard number	36
Launched	6 December 1866
Completed	January 1867
Refit	re-engined 1889 converted to exploration ship 1907
Identification	UK official number 55047 1889: code letters KWVT 1918: code letters JNFD
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
Installed power	1867: 50 hp 1891: 60 rhp
Propulsion	single screw 1891: compound steam engine
Sail plan	1867: three-masted schooner by 1874: re-rigged as barquentine
Speed	6 knots (11 km/h) under steam
Crew	1919: 12

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.