The troop transport Parnassus was lost at Corsica in late 1796 with heavy loss of life.

It showed her master as Thomas Watts, her owners as Drake and Long, and trade London–Jamaica.

[8] On 30 October a French cartel from Saint-Malo arrived at Plymouth with Carr and several other captains of captured British ships.

Parnassus, in the Jamaica trade, Captain Dawson Carr, was offered for sale by the candle in October 1784.

"Parnassus" reappeared in the 1787 edition (published in 1786), with H. Clow, master, London ownership, and trade London–Greenland.

[10] On 11 July 1786 LL reported that Parnassus, Clow, master, was at Greenland and so far had taken three whales and 300 seals.

Parnassus was last listed in LR in 1796 with H. Clow, master, Edwards, owner, and trade London–Davis Strait.

She then spent the next two weeks landing the artillery and stores for the attack on Fort Bourbon, and bringing bread from the River Lamentin.

She struck rocks at Les Moines and sank immediately, taking 278 people with her.