Champigny

A four-masted steel barque built in 1902 by Forges et chantiers de la M´diterranée, Graville-Havre. Dimensions 95,11×13,73×7,23 meters [312'1"×45'1"×23'9"] and tonnage 3112 GRT and 2729 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top- and topgallant sails.

Sistership to the same owner's Asnières.

1902 June 7: Launched at the shipyard of Forges et chantiers de la M´diterranée, Graville-Havre, for Société des Longs Coureiers Français, Le Havre. Captain J. Boju.
1902 June 18 — June 21: Sailed from Le Havre to Penarth.
1902 August 1 — December 10: Sailed from Penarth to Honolulu in 131 days.
1922 February 28: Laid up in the Canal de la Martinière.
1923 July: Sold to Finska Skolskeppsrederiet (Lars Krogius, mgr), Helsingfors, and was renamed Fennia. Captain Orvar Blom.
1927 May: Was partly dis-masted off Cape Horn and had to seek refuge at the Falkland Islands where she was subsequently hulked.
1967 November: Towed to Montevideo.

Updated 1996-05-26 by Lars Bruzelius.

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