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. * ''Nimrod'' was a sloop of 40 tons ( bm) launched on the Thames in 1776. She entered ''

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'' in 1787 as "Nimrdo" with master J. Barrett, owner James Mather, and trade London-Falkland Islands. She was on her first whaling voyage when she was lost at the Falklands in 1788.British Southern Whale Fishery - Voyages: Nimrod.
/ref> ''Waterford packet'', another whaler, saved ''Nimrod''s master, Horton, and crew and carried them to Faial in the

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. * ''Nimrod'' was the former French ship ''Éole'' which the Royal Navy captured and took into service as HMS ''Nimrod'' and sold in 1811. She then made three whaling voyages between 1811 and 1819. * was launched in Montreal, Quebec. She transferred her registry to England, and started trading between London and Honduras. She was wrecked on 17 February 1813. * , was launched in Delaware in 1799 and was listed as engaging in the British Southern Whale Fishery in 1815. She was first listed ''

'' in 1810 and was last listed in 1820. * ''Nimrod'' was an American brig launched in 1803 that the British

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captured in 1807 and took into service as . She was broken up in 1814. * was launched in 1812 and sold to mercantile service in 1827. In 1841, under the command of Captain Manning, she transported assisted emigrants from Liverpool to

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(Melbourne), and Sydney. * was a barque launched at Calcutta in 1821. She sailed in the South Pacific, for a while as a whaler, and then as a trader. Records become thin after the late 1840s. * was a brig launched at Greenock in 1824. From about 1839 she sailed out of Australian and New Zealand ports, some of that time as a whaler. She was wrecked in 1854. * ''Nimrod'' was an American whaler that made some 20 whaling voyages from Sag Harbour from 1830 until she was condemned at Sydney on 28 November 1860. * ''Nimrod'' was an American whaler launched at South

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in 1842. captured and burned her on 26 June 1865,National Maritime Digital Library - American Offshore Whaling Voyages: ''Nimrod''.
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in 1860. * - launched in 1867 and wrecked in 1919 − was the ship

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