Phyllis Cormack
History | |
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Name | Phyllis Cormack |
Operator | John Cormack |
Port of registry | ![]() |
Builder | Marine View Boat Works, Tacoma, Washington |
Completed | 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Seine fishing |
Displacement | 99 tons |
Length | 25 m (82.0 ft) |
Height | over 30 ft (9.1 m)[b] |
Propulsion | One Diesel engine[3] |
Sail plan | one sail[c] |
Crew | 12 |
The Phyllis Cormack is a 25-meter[4] (82-foot) herring and halibut seine fishing boat,[5][6] displacing 99 tons and crewed by up to 12 people.[7] The wooden vessel was built in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, by Marine View Boat Works.[d]
The vessel was chartered in September 1971 by the
Name
The boat's name derives from that of the wife of its skipper, John Cormack.[5][8]
Greenpeace charters
1971
The vessel was renamed or nicknamed Greenpeace for the voyage, a name subsequently used by the organisation that sprang from the organising committee.
1975
In June 1975, the Phyllis Cormack was chartered by the Greenpeace Foundation, a Vancouver, B.C. ecological organization,
Notes
- ^ "You are a Canadian vessel"[1]
- ^ "the single mast, rising 30 feet above the cabin"[2]
- ^ "a great, pale green, triangular sail, fixed to the mast and to a boom"[2]
- ^ "Marine View Boat Works in Tacoma, Washington, built the fish boat in 1941, designed for stability and space — beamy, with massive oak timbers and fine, edge-grain gum wood planks fixed flush with each other against the oak ribs"[2]
- ^ "Crew member Patrick Moore went on to become director of Greenpeace Canada"[7]
- ^ "[The Coast Guard captain] was talking to the captain and some of the leaders of this expedition in the wheelhouse of the Phyllis Cormack anchored in Akutan Bay"[1]
References
- ^ a b Wall 2019.
- ^ a b c Weyler 2004, p. 94.
- ^ Weyler 2004, pp. 78–79: "wedged between the hull and the diesel engine"
- ^ SHONA MCKAY (6 December 1982). "Waging war on ugliness". Maclean's. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
In 1971 the Phyllis Cormack, a 25-m halibut boat, set out from Vancouver
- ^ a b c CHARLES FLOWERS (24 August 1975). "Between the harpoon and the whale". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ Paul Clarke (June 1994). "Greenpeace: Past, Present and Future". Satya Magazine. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
an aging halibut seining boat called the Phyllis Cormack
- ^ a b c "Environmental Pioneers Profile # 24: The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" Were the Founders of Greenpeace". Living on Earth. Public Radio International. 7 June 1996. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ "Lyle Thurston: Activist and ship's doctor on the first voyage of the 'Greenpeace'". The Independent. 3 April 2008. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
a mackerel seiner called the Phyllis Cormack, named after the wife of its captain
- ^ "The Founders | Greenpeace USA". www.greenpeace.org. Archived from the original on 1 April 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "Amchitka: the founding voyage". Greenpeace.org. Greenpeace International. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
their old fishing boat was called "The Greenpeace". This is where our story begins.
- ^ Weyler 2004, p. 80: ""She's a bit jury-rigged," Moore told Bob Hunter"
- ^ Weyler 2004, p. 85: "crew of twelve. For the engineering position, Cormack selected [...] Pat Moore and Jim Bohlen would be counted on to help operate the boat."
- ^ "WHALE PROTECTORS CONFRONT RUSSIANS". The New York Times. 30 June 1975. p. 32. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
the Phyllis Cormack, operated by a Canada‐based ecological organization, the Greenpeace Foundation, whose headquarters are in Vancouver
Sources
- Weyler, Rex (2004), Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World, Rodale, pp. 30–94, ISBN 1594861064, retrieved 20 March 2019
- Wall, Maggie (25 January 2019), Nuclear testing in Alaska, the '64 Earthquake, the Coast Guard, and Greenpeace, KMXT (FM), retrieved 19 March 2019