Rainbow Warrior (1957)
 The Rainbow Warrior in port at Bastia in 2006 |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Grampian Fame |
| Owner: | Craig & Sons, Aberdeen, United Kingdom Greenpeace (1989 - ) |
| Port of registry: | Amsterdam, Netherlands (1989 - ) |
| Builder: | Cochrane & Sons, Selby, United Kingdom. |
| Launched: | 1957 |
| Acquired: | 1987 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 5300481
MMSI number: 244535000 Call sign: PC8024[1] |
| Status: | Retired, August 16, 2011 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Motor assisted schooner |
| Tonnage: | 555 GT (gross tonnage) |
| 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: | Two Diesel Deutz M.W.M. 2 x 6 cylinder 2 x 500 KW |
| Speed: | 13 knots (maximum) 10 knots (cruising) |
| Range: | 30 days |
| Boats and landing craft carried: |
One Avon Four Novurania |
| Capacity: | 30 |
| Notes: | Sail area: 650 m² |
The Rainbow Warrior (sometimes informally called Rainbow Warrior II) is a three-masted schooner in service with the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. She was built from the hull of the deep sea fishing ship Ross Kashmir[2] (later the Grampian Fame), which had been built in Selby, North Yorkshire and launched in 1957. Another vessel, the Ross Tiger, built in the same year by the same builder, Cochrane and Sons, and for the same company, Ross Trawlers, also survives to the present day. Rainbow Warrior was originally 44 metres long and powered by steam, but was extended to 55.2 m in 1966. Greenpeace gave the vessel new masts, a gaff rig, a new engine and a number of environmentally low-impact systems to handle waste, heating and hot water. [3] She was officially re-launched in Hamburg on July 10, 1989, the fourth anniversary of the sinking of her predecessor, the original Rainbow Warrior.
She currently operates in support of the organisation's protest actions across the globe.
The Rainbow Warrior, piloted by skipper Mike Fincken, docked at the Legazpi City port in Albay on May 22, 2008 for her one month long "Quit Coal, Save the Climate" Philippines tour and campaign aimed to educate people on the effects of the use of coal on the environment, specifically on climate change. The tour proposed alternative energy sources such as geothermal and solar energy.[4]
Rainbow warrior II was retired on the 16th of August 2011. Her bell was removed, the Dolphin mascot was taken down and the name of the ship was painted over. The ship was sold to Friendship, a Bangladesh NGO, and will be refit to serve as a hospital ship. The new name of the vessel will be Rongdhonu, Bengali for rainbow.
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[edit] Image gallery
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The Rainbow Warrior in port at Genoa in 2007
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The Rainbow Warrior in port at Wellington in 2008
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The Rainbow Warrior in port at West_India_Docks,London in 2009
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The specification.
[edit] References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rainbow Warrior (ship, 1957) |
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Wikinews has related news: Greenpeace ship confronts fishermen off Marseille |
- Official Greenpeace page on the Rainbow Warrior
- New Zealand website on the Rainbow Warrior
- Australian Greenpeace website on the Rainbow Warrior
- Specifications of the Rainbow Warrior (on Greenpeace site)
- ^ "Vessel details RAINBOW WARRIOR: Current position, data, and photos of RAINBOW WARRIOR" (in English). Digital-Seas.com. http://www.digital-seas.com/vessel_search/vessel_details/on/rainbow%20warrior_q44855.html. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
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- ^ Environmentally friendly technologies on Rainbow warrior
- ^ Abs-Cbn Interactive, Greenpeace ship visits Legazpi for 'quit coal' campaign
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