Rainbow Warrior (1957)
Rainbow Warrior in port at Bastia in 2006
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History | |
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Name | Kashmir |
Owner |
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Port of registry | Amsterdam, Netherlands (1989 – ) |
Builder | Cochrane & Sons, Selby, United Kingdom. |
Launched | 1957 |
Acquired | 1987 |
Out of service | 2018 |
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Fate | Scrapped, 15 November 2018 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Motor assisted schooner |
Tonnage | 555 GT |
Length | 55.20 m (181 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | 30 days |
Boats & landing craft carried |
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Capacity | 30 |
Notes | Sail area: 650 m2 (7,000 sq ft) |
Rainbow Warrior (sometimes informally called Rainbow Warrior II) was a three-masted
The Rainbow Warrior II was built from the
History
Over the course of her career, Rainbow Warrior participated in activist campaigns such as blockading the Russian whaling fleet, protesting French nuclear weapons testing, and stopping ships with cargos of coal and palm oils, as well as humanitarian activities such as evacuating the inhabitants of
Rainbow Warrior damaged the Tubbataha Reef, a world heritage site in the Philippines in 2005. Greenpeace was fined $7,000 for damaging almost 100 m2 (1,100 sq ft) of the coral reef.[6] Greenpeace blamed faulty maps provided by the Philippine government for the accident.[6] The BBC quoted Greenpeace official Red Constantino as saying "The chart indicated we were a mile and a half" from the coral reef when the ship ran aground.[6] Greenpeace paid the fine.[6]
Legacy
Rainbow Warrior was retired in August 2011 and sold to Friendship, a Bangladesh-based NGO, to serve as a hospital ship, renamed Rongdhonu, Bengali for rainbow.[4] She docked in the port of Chittagong on 29 August to undergo a refitting for that purpose.[4] Rainbow Warrior III was launched in October 2011.
The NGO Friendship sold the ship for scrapping in a Bangladesh scrap yard in 2018.[7][8]
Image gallery
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Rainbow Warrior in port at Genoa in 2007
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Rainbow Warrior in port at Wellington in 2008
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Rainbow Warrior in port at West India Docks, London in 2009
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The specification.
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Rainbow warrior in Port of Haifa, Israel, 2008.
See also
- Legend of the Rainbow Warriors
- List of schooners
- Tubbataha Reef grounding incidents
References
- ^ "Vessel details RAINBOW WARRIOR: Current position, data, and photos of RAINBOW WARRIOR". Digital-Seas.com. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
- ^ Lancashire FLOAT | Word Search | Item. Float-trawlers.lancashire.gov.uk.
- ^ Environmentally friendly technologies on Rainbow warrior Archived 9 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c "Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior begins refit as Bangladesh hospital ship". The Guardian. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ Abs-Cbn Interactive, Greenpeace ship visits Legazpi for 'quit coal' campaign [permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c d BBC News Greenpeace fined for reef damage
- ^ "NGO-owned MV Rongdhonu ex-Rainbow Warrior II Beached in Chittagong for Recycling".
- ^ ""Statement: decommissioning the Rongdhonu"".