Parr (ship)
Several vessels have been named Parr:
- Parr (1769 ship), of 140 tons (bm), was a ship built in North Carolina. She was registered in Philadelphia with Peter Creighton, master, and Joseph Wharton, owner.[1]
- Parr (1784 ship) was a vessel captured circa 1783.[2] The captured vessel was renamed for Governor Parr.[2] Between 1785 and 1794, she made eight voyages from Halifax, Nova Scotia as a whaler. In 1791, she was part of a flotilla that carried blacks from Halifax to establish a community in Sierra Leone.
- Parr (1797 ship) was launched in 1797 at Liverpool as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was lost in 1798 in an explosion on her first voyage.
Citations
- ^ Anon. (1904), p.239.
- ^ a b Kirkpatrick (2023), p. 25.
References
- Anon. 1904. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 28,
Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1904
- Kirkpatrick, Andrea (2023). A Game of Chance: The Story of British North American South Seas Whaling. FriesenPress. ISBN 9781039158634.
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