PARMA – EX ARROW

Steel Four-masted Bark.   Sail and Rigging, Longitudinal Sections, Deck, Lines and Thwart ship Elevations

Arrow was built for the Anglo-American Oil Company for trade between New York, the Far East, and Australia. Her primary cargo outbound was case oil, returning with wool and grain. In 1911, she was sold to Ferdinand Laeisz's Flying P Line. Renamed Parma, she entered the nitrate trade between Chile and Europe. The start of World War I found her at Iquique, where she was interned for the duration of the war with her fleet mate Passat. In 1921, she was allocated to the British government as war reparations and returned to Europe, only to be sold back to Laeisz the same year. The market for square-rigged shipping contracted in the depression, and in 1931 Laeisz sold Parma to an Åland Island-based syndicate headed by Reuben de Cloux, whom Alan Villiers (his partner in the venture) would later describe as "the outstanding Ålands master-mariner." At the time she was the only Finnish-flag sailing ship in the grain trade not owned by Gustaf Erikson.

In 1933 Parma sailed from Australia to Falmouth in eighty-three days, the best time of the century, despite the fact that many of her crew thought that the presence of two women—the captain's daughter, Ruby de Cloux, and Betty Jacobsen, an American apprentice—would bring her bad luck. In 1936, Parma was damaged at Glasgow while being handled by two towboats. The cost of repairs being prohibitively expensive, she was sold to German ship breakers. She was rigged down as a hulk at Hamburg and towed to Israel after the war.  

 

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