The Rachel Corrie was built in Hamburg under construction number 625 at the JJ Sietas shipyard . The launch took place on April 15, the delivery on May 20, 1967. It was launched under the name Carsten and was renamed Norasia Attica in January 1993 . From December 1993 the ship was named Manya and sailed under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines with home port Kingstown . After another change of ownership, it was named Linda in 2003 and was registered in Phnom Penh ( Cambodia ).
In a July 30, 2009 in Dundalk ( Ireland carried out) Review of Linda presented employees of the port state control numerous deficiencies and prohibited leakage. The ship remained in Dundalk, initially for weeks with its crew, and was finally abandoned by the Latvian shipping company Forestry Shipping without paying the crew. Because of the open wages of € 42,000, the International Transport Workers Federation enforced the confiscation of Linda in the Irish High Court in autumn 2009 . The crew then left the ship. During the rest of the layover in Dundalk, strangers looted the bridge and stole various devices. On March 30, 2010, the Linda was publicly auctioned and purchased by the Free Gaza Movement organization for € 70,000 . The funds for the purchase came from the Malaysian Perdana Global Peace Organization as well as funds from the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad . The ship was then repaired on site and made seaworthy . In early May 2010, it was named Rachel Corrie and was able to leave Dundalk after being held there for a total of 285 days.
The Rachel Corrie was then transferred to Cork and loaded with relief supplies for the Gaza Strip . This included 550 tons of cement , which Israel had banned its import. The ship left Ireland on May 12, 2010 with eight crew members and eleven passengers on board, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire and former UN diplomat Denis Halliday . The plan was to meet six ships belonging to the Ship to Gaza organization in the eastern Mediterranean in order to break the Gaza blockade . Due to a technical problem, the Rachel Corrie had to call at Malta at short notice . On May 31, 2010, when the other ships became involved in the Ship-to-Gaza incident , she resumed voyage from Malta. The Israeli government announced in the following days that the ship wanted to stop. At the request of the Irish government, they made the crew an offer to call at the port of Ashdod (Israel) and, after a check, to have the relief goods transported from there to the Gaza Strip. Those responsible on board refused to do this because they feared that parts of the cargo would be confiscated.
On June 5, 2010, the ship was seized by Israeli forces in international waters about 23 nautical miles (42 kilometers) off the coast of Gaza and diverted to Ashdod. The people on board did not offer any resistance and were immediately deported. The Rachel Corrie remained in Haifa as a trailer . From there it sent an AIS signal for the last time on January 26, 2012 . Your current condition is unclear.
