MV Nimbin information

History
Australia
Name	Nimbin
Owner	North Coast Steam Navigation Company
Port of registry	Sydney, Australia
Route	North Coast Butter Run[citation needed]
Builder	Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark
Launched	27 April 1927
Maiden voyage	21 June 1927, from Copenhagen to Sydney in 65 days
In service	14 September 1927
Identification	Official Number: 155313
Fate	Sunk by German naval mine 5 December 1940
General characteristics
Type	Steel Motor Vessel
Tonnage	1,052 GRT, 516 NRT
Length	65.53 m (215 ft 0 in)
Beam	10.66 m (35 ft 0 in)
Draught	3.352 m (11 ft 0 in)
Installed power	Burmeister & Wain diesel engine 1,000 horsepower (750 kW)
Propulsion	Single screw
Speed	12.1 knots (22.4 km/h; 13.9 mph)
Capacity	60,900 cubic feet, and fitted for refrigerated cargo
Crew	20

The Nimbin was a steel screw steamer built in 1927 at Copenhagen, that was the first motor vessel placed into the New South Wales coastal trade. It was owned and operated by the North Coast Steam Navigation Company and was the first Australian registered merchant ship to be lost during World War II when it struck a mine laid by the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin. The Nimbin was on its way from Coffs Harbour to its home port, Sydney, with a cargo of bundled three-ply timber and a cargo of pigs. One third of the ship was blown away and it sank in three minutes. Seven men were killed. The remaining thirteen clung to bundles of plywood. Some hours later an air force plane from RAAF Base Rathmines saw the survivors and directed the coastal ship SS Bonalbo to the scene to retrieve them.

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History

Australia
Name	Nimbin
Owner	North Coast Steam Navigation Company
Port of registry	Sydney, Australia
Route	North Coast Butter Run^{[citation needed]}
Builder	Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark
Launched	27 April 1927
Maiden voyage	21 June 1927, from Copenhagen to Sydney in 65 days
In service	14 September 1927
Identification	Official Number: 155313
Fate	Sunk by German naval mine 5 December 1940
General characteristics
Type	Steel Motor Vessel
Tonnage	1,052 GRT, 516 NRT
Length	65.53 m (215 ft 0 in)
Beam	10.66 m (35 ft 0 in)
Draught	3.352 m (11 ft 0 in)
Installed power	Burmeister & Wain diesel engine 1,000 horsepower (750 kW)
Propulsion	Single screw
Speed	12.1 knots (22.4 km/h; 13.9 mph)
Capacity	60,900 cubic feet, and fitted for refrigerated cargo
Crew	20