Square rigged sailing ships OSSA and CHAMPIGNY.
Caption from Richard Smith:

The OSSA was a full-rigged ship built at Dumbarton in 1902 as Sf MARGAHRITA. By 1914 she was German owned, registered in Hamburg and named OSSA and on October 17th 1914 she was brought into Ipswich Dock flying the Red Ensign above her German colours having been captured by a British warship in the Channel. She was bought by a London firm at a War Prize Court in January 1915 and renamed KINBURNEY, London registered, and put back in trade sailing from Ipswich on 14th January to London. She was to be torpedoed shortly afterwards by the German Navy.

CHAMPIGNY was one of the best known and documented of the French bounty ships, a steel four-masted barque launched at Havre in June 1902 for Havre owners. She made thirteen voyages under the French flag, all of them to Pacific ports including San Francisco, Honolulu, Antofagasta, Tacoma, Vancouver, Valparaiso, and to Newcastle NSW and Melbourne carrying coal, grain and nitrate. Her ninth voyage commenced at Rotterdam on July 25th 1913 and she arrived in 'Frisco 125 days out on November 27th. After discharging she sailed round to Astoria some 500 miles north at the mouth of the Columbia River in fifty-two hours and up to Portland to load wheat, clearing Astoria for Ipswich on March 8th. One hundred and eighteen days later she passed Prawle Point and arrived in the Orwell on 6th July 1914 with barley and wheat, and entered the dock on 23rd July. She laid up at Ipswich for some months sailing on 3rd March with a part cargo of chalk and colours for the Tyne to load more cargo for San Francisco arriving March 12th on the Tyne from where she sailed on April 28th 1915.

CHAMPIGNY completed her last French owned voyage at Nantes on December 8th 1921 to be laid up. She was however bought by the Finnish School Ship Association in July 1923 and fitted out as a cargo carrying cadet ship and renamed FENNIA under the Finnish flag. She traded worldwide with coke, coal, timber and nitrate until 1927. On February 10th in that year she left Cardiff with patent fuel for Valparaiso but ran into severe weather before reaching the Horn and put back to the Falklands seriously dismasted having lost the whole of her main and mizzen masts, half of the foremast and the jigger topmast. By an incredible feat of endurance her master and crew, working on an almost foundering ship amidst a welter of steel rigging and spars, managed to get her in the lee of the land where the Master concluded a towage agreement rather than a salvage claim with a steamship Captain and she was towed into Port Stanley in mid-May 1927. There she remained, as a store-ship and a hulk until being seen by a former seaman in sail who became Curator of San Francisco's Maritime Museum in the 1960s. In 1972 [as FENNIA] she was towed to Montevideo for a refit to the hull ready for the passage to 'Frisco and preservation. [But the project ran out of money and she was taken to Paysandu, Uruguay to be broken up.]

Loaned by SSBR via Don Wright.

Computer print, via Don Wright, SSBR
Date: c17 October 1914