Parma, ex Arrow

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2008

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Texas Tech University Libraries

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Ship Name: Parma; Sailed: 1902-1938; Type: Steel 4-masted bark; Built by: Port Glasgow, Scotland, by A. Rodger & Co.; Dimensions: 327.7' x 46.5' x 26.2'; Tonnage: 3090 tons.

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Arrow belonged to Anglo American Oil and was a sister to Eclipse also of the same firm. In 1912, Arrow became the property of F. Laeisz of Hamburg and was renamed Parma (all of the Laeisz ships had names beginning with the letter P). The ship was in the nitrate trade and spent World War I at Iquique. Awarded as reparations to Great Britain after the war, F. Laeisz purchased the ship a second time and it continued in the nitrate trade until 1931. Ruben De Cloux and Alan Villiers shared ownership of the Parma from 1931 and put it into the Australian grain trade until 1936. Villiers sold out after a couple of years, and with his earnings purchased Georg Stage and sailed around the world. Meanwhile, in 1936 Parma was in a minor mishap in Glasgow harbor and was sold to be an unrigged barge. In 1938, the ship went to the breakers. There are two smokestacks seeming to come from Parma while under tow. The first is the donkey engine in the forward deckhouse. The thicker stack is a tug alongside. The odd structure on the stern is a covered steel wheelhouse which looked clunky, but was in reality a lifesaver. Following seas on more than one occasion have washed away wheel, helmsman and everything else not bolted down.

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Merchant Ships, Ships

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