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Nimrod (ship), the Glossary

Index 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.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 72 relations: Alexander Stephen and Sons, Alexandra of Denmark, Antarctic Circle, Antarctica, Australia, Barquentine, Barrow-in-Furness, Bloomsbury Publishing, Blyth, Northumberland, Bridge (nautical), Bunkering, Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service, Caister-on-Sea, Cape Royds, Cargo ship, Caulk, Chief engineer, Code letters, Dundee, Edward VII, Engine room, Erebus Glacier Tongue, Ernest Shackleton, Ferrar Glacier, Flare gun, Geology, Gorleston-on-Sea, Gourlay Brothers, Heinemann (publisher), Hodder & Stoughton, Hopton-on-Sea, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Internet Archive, James Mills (ship owner), Lifeboat (rescue), Lifeboat (shipboard), List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922, Lloyd's Register, Marine steam engine, McMurdo Sound, Mount Erebus, New Zealand, New Zealand Government, Nimrod, Nimrod Expedition, Nimrod Glacier, Norfolk, North Sea, Official number, Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, ... Expand index (22 more) »

  2. Auxiliary steamers
  3. Barquentines
  4. Ernest Shackleton
  5. Exploration ships of the United Kingdom
  6. World War I ships of the United Kingdom

Alexander Stephen and Sons

Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Linthouse, Glasgow, on the River Clyde and, initially, on the east coast of Scotland.

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Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of Edward VII.

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Antarctic Circle

The Antarctic Circle is the most southerly of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of Earth.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Barquentine

A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. Nimrod (ship) and barquentine are barquentines.

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Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Blyth, Northumberland

Blyth is a port and seaside town as well as a civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England.

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Bridge (nautical)

Sikuliaq'', docked in Ketchikan, Alaska Wheelhouse on a tugboat, topped with a flying bridge A bridge (also known as a command deck), or wheelhouse (also known as a pilothouse), is a room or platform of a ship or submarine from which the ship can be commanded.

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Bunkering

Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships (such fuel is referred to as bunker), including the logistics of loading and distributing the fuel among available shipboard tanks.

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Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service

Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service, or Caister Lifeboat, is based at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk, and operates one of only three offshore lifeboats in the UK that are independent of the RNLI.

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Caister-on-Sea

Caister-on-Sea, also known colloquially as Caister, is a large village and seaside resort in Norfolk, England.

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Cape Royds

Cape Royds is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island, facing on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Caulk

Caulk or caulking is a material used to seal joints or seams against leakage in various structures and piping.

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Chief engineer

A chief engineer, commonly referred to as "Chief" or "ChEng", is the most senior licensed mariner (engine officer) of an engine department on a ship, typically a merchant ship, and holds overall leadership and the responsibility of that department.

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Code letters

Code letters or ship's call sign (or callsign) were a method of identifying ships before the introduction of modern navigation aids.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Engine room

On a ship, the engine room (ER) is the compartment where the machinery for marine propulsion is located.

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Erebus Glacier Tongue

The Erebus Glacier Tongue is a mountain outlet glacier and the seaward extension of Erebus Glacier from Ross Island.

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

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Ferrar Glacier

Ferrar Glacieris a glacier in Antarctica.

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Flare gun

A flare gun, also known as a Very pistol or signal pistol, is a large-bore handgun that discharges flares, blanks and smoke.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Gorleston-on-Sea

Gorleston-on-Sea, historically and colloquially known as Gorleston, is a seaside town in the borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England.

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Gourlay Brothers

Gourlay Brothers was a marine engineering and shipbuilding company based in Dundee, Scotland.

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Heinemann (publisher)

William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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Hopton-on-Sea

Hopton-on-Sea is a village, civil parish and seaside resort on the coast of East Anglia in the county of Norfolk.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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James Mills (ship owner)

Sir James Mills (30 July 1847 – 23 January 1936) was a New Zealand businessman and politician.

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Lifeboat (rescue)

A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers.

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Lifeboat (shipboard)

A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.

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List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922

This list includes all the main Antarctic exploration ships that were employed in the seventeen expeditions that took place in the era between 1897 and 1922, known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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Lloyd's Register

Lloyd's Register Group Limited, trading as Lloyd's Register (LR), is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering.

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Marine steam engine

A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat.

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McMurdo Sound

The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately from the South Pole.

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Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand Government

The New Zealand Government (Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa) is the central government through which political authority is exercised in New Zealand.

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Nimrod

Nimrod (ܢܡܪܘܕ; Numrūd) is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles.

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Nimrod Expedition

The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent. Nimrod (ship) and Nimrod Expedition are Ernest Shackleton.

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Nimrod Glacier

The Nimrod Glacier is a major glacier about long, flowing from the polar plateau in a northerly direction through the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Official number

Official numbers are ship identifier numbers assigned to merchant ships by their country of registration.

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Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby

Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Port of Calais

The Port of Calais in northern France is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic.

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Port of Liverpool

The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.

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Port of London

The Port of London is that part of the River Thames in England lying between Teddington Lock and the defined boundary (since 1968, a line drawn from Foulness Point in Essex via Gunfleet Old Lighthouse to Warden Point in Kent) with the North Sea and including any associated docks.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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Sailing ship

A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. Nimrod (ship) and schooner are schooners.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.

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Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.

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Ship management

Ship management is the activity of managing marine vessels.

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Ship registration

Ship registration is the process by which a ship is documented and given the nationality of the country to which the ship has been documented.

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

St.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Tonnage

Tonnage is a measure of the capacity of a ship, and is commonly used to assess fees on commercial shipping.

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Union Company

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau.

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Whaler

A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. Nimrod (ship) and whaler are whaling ships.

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Whaling

Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.

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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn

William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, DL (16 October 1856 – 9 April 1936), known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921, was a British industrialist, founding the eponymous William Beardmore and Company.

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See also

Auxiliary steamers

Barquentines

Ernest Shackleton

Exploration ships of the United Kingdom

World War I ships of the United Kingdom

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(ship)

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