page_title: Cimba
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: Cimba / Construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Cimba (ship). The 'Cimba' at Brown's Short Street Wharf, Brisbane River, around 1900.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
  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.
caption: Cimba
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