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Parma

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Rig

Finnish four-masted barque

Tonnage

3000

Demise

condemned in 1938 after collision with wharf in Glasgow;

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19 March 1936 ➜ 14 July 1936

Parma
Port Victoria, South Australia
Falmouth, England

1935

Parma
Barry Docks
Port Broughton

1932

Parma
South Australia
Europe

Parma
South Australia
Falmouth, England

Description

Barque

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Reference

Alan John Villiers - Grain Race (London 1932, New York 1933) and reprinted as - The Voyage of the Parma: The great grain race of 1932 from Australia to Falmouth by way of Cape Horn (1947)
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Alan John Villiers - The Last of the Wind Ships (1933)
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117-day voyage described in letter home by Eric Stevens, of her drew and published as The Last Voyage of the Parma (Sydney 1984)
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Reference

Log of Logs, Vol 3

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Author

Ian Nicholson

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