In April 1878 launched at the shipyard of A. Hood at Aberdeen, Scotland for A. Nicol&Co. also at Aberdeen. Her iron hull was green painted with gold scrolls, a stripe of yellow, while the aloft and bulwarks were white painted. Her figurehead was a lion. Until she was sold in March 1906 to Norway she as used in the wool trade between London and Sydney. Next she was used in the lumber trade until she was stranded on 26 July 1915 underway from Liverpool towards Matana in the fog near Pointe Des Monts in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. When British property she had as call sign RJKS. With a gross tonnage of 1.174 tons, a net tonnage of 1.117 tons and 1.022 tons below deck were her dimensions 223’x 34’6”x 21’7”. The Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 11 September 1915 published an item dated Bergen 31 August reported that the owners of the Norwegian bark Cimba received a telegram from Canada that she was totally lost but her crew saved.
