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Nimrod

Ship
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. Wikipedia
Length: 136′
Launched: December 6, 1866
Sail plan: 1867: three-masted schooner; by 1874: re-rigged as barquentine
Yard number: 36