Rainbow Warrior (1957)
| 300px The Rainbow Warrior in port at Bastia in 2006 | |
| 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: | PC 8024 |
| Status: | In service |
| 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 unofficially 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 Grampian Fame, which had been built in Selby, North Yorkshire and launched in 1957. She 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. [1] 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.[2]
See also
Image gallery
- Rainbow-Warrior-Genova-2006.jpg
The Rainbow Warrior in port at Genoa in 2007
- Rainbow Warrior II.jpg
The Rainbow Warrior in port at Wellington in 2008
- Rainbow Warrior II spec.jpg
The specification.
References
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- 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)
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