Built in 1944 by Harland & Wolf at Govan for Royal Mail Lines at 5,595 grt. She carried the welding scars where she carried a deck gun during the Second World War. She was a single screw motorship designed as a general freighter for the Brazil and River Plate service with occasion trips to the Maricaibo Lakes in Venezuela. On my trip to Brazil we carried general machinery in the holds and railway carriages as deck cargo outward bound and a full cargo of bulk sugar back to KGV.

During the 1950s and 60s the P class ships had their shelter deck status changed and their gross tonnage was increased to about 7500.

The Parima was sold in October 1962 to the Mary Shipping Co. of Panama and renamed the Michalios X. In 1966 she was sold to the Ionia Shipping Co. SA. of Panama and renamed the Fortune Dragon. She was out of register in 1968 so presumed scrapped at that time.  Stu Hogg