FENNIA
FENNIA
Years Active: 1902-1977
Vessel Type: 4-masted Steel Barque
Barque
Nationality: Finnish
De-masted trying to round Cape Horn in May 1927. Towed to the Falkland Islands where she was condemned and spent 40 years as a storage hulk.
Main Use:
Cargo
Years Active:
1902-1977
Power:
Sail
Built:
1902
Size:
3,112 Gross, 2,729 Net tons
95.13 x 13.75 x 7.29 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranée, Le Havre, France
Main Use: Cargo
Built: 1902
Power: Sail
Design/Build: Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranée, Le Havre, France
Size: 3,112 Gross, 2,729 Net tons
Dimensions: 95.13 x 13.75 x 7.29 metres
On 10th February 1927, the FENNIA (formerly known as CHAMPIGNY) left from Cardiff in Wales bound for Valparaiso in Chile, with a cargo of fuel. Before reaching Cape Horn, she ran into a violent storm and lost the whole of her main and mizzen masts, half of the foremast and her jigger top mast. The crew managed to keep her on an even keel and her master managed to negotiate a “towing agreement” with a passing steamship which took her into Stanley, where she was ‘condemned’ as unseaworthy. The was bought by the Falkland Islands Company, which used her as a storage Hulk for 40 years. In 1967 she was sold to a museum in San Francisco and left Stanley under tow on the 25th November 1967. When she arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay, it transpired that the project to save her had run out of money. FENNIA was subsequently broken up in Uruguay in 1977.
On 10th February 1927, the FENNIA (formerly known as CHAMPIGNY) left from Cardiff in Wales bound for Valparaiso in Chile, with a cargo of fuel. Before reaching Cape Horn, she ran into a violent storm and lost the whole of her main and mizzen masts, half of the foremast and her jigger top mast. The crew managed to keep her on an even keel and her master managed to negotiate a “towing agreement” with a passing steamship which took her into Stanley, where she was ‘condemned’ as unseaworthy. The was bought by the Falkland Islands Company, which used her as a storage Hulk for 40 years. In 1967 she was sold to a museum in San Francisco and left Stanley under tow on the 25th November 1967. When she arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay, it transpired that the project to save her had run out of money. FENNIA was subsequently broken up in Uruguay in 1977.
