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Sunday 31 December 2023

German 4-mast barque (ex-Arrow 1902-1912) Parma 1912-1931 (1938)

Johannes Holst (1880-1965). Oil on canvas. Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Albert Roger Edouard Chapelet (25 September 1903 Versailles, France-30 June 1995 Montpon-Ménestérol, France 30 June 1995).  Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Of the German company F. Laiesz of Hamburg, known as the Flying P-line. Built on the Clyde by A. Rodger&Co., Port Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 361 for the British Anglo-American Oil Co. Ltd. in 1902, active on the nitrate trade between Germany and Chile, interned in 1914 at Iquique, Chile, assigned to the United Kingdom in1920, handed over to the Belgian government in 1921, same year sold back to Laiesz, sold to Finland in 1931, hulked in 1936, sold to England, became a hulk at Haifa, Palestine [Israel) and broken up in 1938. 

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