Several vessels have been named Parr:
, of 140 tons (bm), was a ship built in North Carolina. She was registered in Philadelphia with Peter Creighton, master, and Joseph Wharton, owner.Anon. (1904), p.239. was a vessel captured circa 1783. The captured vessel was renamed for Governor Parr. 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. 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
References Anon. 1904. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 28, Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1904