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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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SCALE
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SHEETS
BSF-1029-1032
PRICE:
$ 137.75
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