Cimba
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = StateLibQld 1 128373 Cimba (ship).jpg | Ship caption = Cimba }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = |Ship country = United Kingdom |Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name = Cimba | Ship owner = A. Nicol & Co. Aberdeen | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = A. Hood, Aberdeen | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = April 1878 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header =title |Ship country = Norway |Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Norway|civil}} | Ship name = | Ship owner = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = 1906 March, Sold to Norwegian owners. | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Stranded near Pointe Des Monts, 26 July 1915 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship type = Iron-hulled clipper | Ship tons burthen = 1174 GRT, 1117 NRT; 1022 tons under deck | Ship length = {{convert|223|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|34|ft|6|in|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = {{convert|21|ft|7|in|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth = | Ship propulsion = | Ship sail plan = Full-rigged ship. "Rigged with royals, with double topgallant sails on the fore and main masts, and double gallant sails." | Ship complement = | Ship armament = | Ship notes = British Reg. No. 77444; Signal RKJS {{Cite web | last = Bruzelius | first = Lars | title = Sailing Ships: Cimba (1878) | work = Cimba | publisher = The Maritime History Virtual Archives | date = 1997-05-06 | url = http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Merchant/Sail/C/Cimba%281878%29.html | access-date = 11 February 2011}} }} |
Cimba was a British-built clipper in the Australian wool trade. She sailed between London and Sydney for 20 years, from 1878 to 1898. In 1905, Cimba set the sailing ship record for a passage from Callao to Iquique, of 14 days.
Construction
Cimba was an iron-hulled ship, built in Aberdeen in 1878. Her hull was painted green with gold scrolls, a yellow stripe, white bulwarks and white paint aloft. A lion was her figurehead.
{{Cite book
| last1 = Winchester
| first1 = Clarence
| last2 = Hardy
| first2 = A.C. (Arthur Cecil)
| last3 = Brown
| first3 = Frank Charles
| title = Shipping Wonders of the World
| publisher = Amalgamated Press
| volume = 41-45
| year = 1936
| location = London
| page = 1312
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vrgfAAAAMAAJ
| oclc = 12715461}}
File:StateLibQld 1 129399 Cimba (ship).jpg
Cimba was very heavily rigged, with her main lower masts a bit shorter than some clippers at 60 ft., and with heavy lower yards, the fore and main yards at over 4 tons apiece. She had the reputation of being a "tender" ship, i.e., heeling over easily under sail.{{Cite book | last = Lubbock | first = Basil | author-link = Basil Lubbock | title = The Colonial Clippers | publisher = James Brown & Son | edition = 2nd | year = 1921 | location = Glasgow | pages = 290, 292–295 | oclc = 1750412 }}
Voyages
Cimba sailed in the wool trade between London and Sydney for 20 years, from 1878 to 1898, and was a regular visitor to Port Jackson for almost 30 years. Her first captain, J. Fimster, served until 1895, at which time Captain J. W. Holmes took over until her sale to Norwegian owners in 1906. Captain Holmes had served as third mate aboard Salamis, chief mate on the clippers Blackadder and Hallowe'en, and commander of the ship Leucadia.
Under her Norwegian owners, Cimba's chief cargo was lumber. She carried firewood from the Baltic to East Indian Dock in Aberdeen Bay, and made a fast passage from Dublin to the St. Lawrence of 14 days.
Loss of the ship
Cimba was stranded in the fog near Pointe Des Monts, 1 mile west, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on 26 July 1915. She was en route to Matane from Liverpool, and was the last sailing vessel to be lost in this area.
{{Cite book
| last = Brookes
| first = Ivan S.
| title = The Lower St. Lawrence: a Pictorial History of Shipping and Industrial Development
| publisher = Freshwater Press
| year = 1974
| location = Cleveland
| page = 145
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TYrtAAAAMAAJ&q=cimba
| oclc = 1004161}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Cimba (ship, 1878)|Cimba}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=AU_lcggypS0C&dq=cimba+ship&pg=PA149 The clipper ship Cimba], from {{Cite book
| last = Smith
| first = C. Fox
| title = A Book of Famous Ships
| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Co
| orig-year = 1924| year = 2006
| location = New York
| isbn = 9781846644290
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AU_lcggypS0C&q=cimba+ship&pg=PA149
|oclc = 8961275 }}
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{{July 1915 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Individual sailing vessels
Category:Victorian-era merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Category:World War I merchant ships of Norway
Category:Ships built in Aberdeen
Category:Shipwrecks of the Saint Lawrence River