Parr was launched in 1797 at Liverpool as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people.

[2] Lloyd's Register for 1797 had a Parr, 450 tons (bm), of Liverpool, Christian, master.

[4] Captain David Christian acquired a letter of marque on 5 December 1797,[5] and sailed for the Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea Islands on 5 February 1798; he acquired captives at Bonny Island.

[1] Lloyd's List reported that Parr, Christian, master, caught fire and blew up in 1798, off the coast of Africa as she was sailing from there for the West Indies.

[10] (Two or three years earlier he had been master of Othello when she too had caught fire while gathering captives.