List of ships named Rainbow Warrior
Rainbow Warrior (German: "Regenbogenkrieger") is or was the name of three ships of the environmental protection organization Greenpeace .
Surname
The name comes from a legend first published in 1962 in the book Warriors of the Rainbow by William Willoya and Vinson Brown . In it, an Indian woman prophesies to a little boy that after the earth was devastated and the animals died, a new tribe would come into the world, consisting of people of many colors, classes and beliefs. This would make the earth green again by their actions and warriors of the rainbow ( Warriors of the Rainbow ) are called.
Ship list
designation | Ship type | Class / type | Construction year | Shipyard | Owner | period of service | Whereabouts | image |
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Rainbow Warrior | Research ship | 1955 | Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen | Greenpeace | 1978-1985 | Sunk in 1985 | ||
Rainbow Warrior | trawler | 1957 | Cochrane & Sons, Selby | Greenpeace | 1989-2011 | Sold to Friendship in Bangladesh in 2011 when Rongdhonu was scrapped in 2018 | ||
Rainbow Warrior | 2011 | Maritim Shipyard, Danzig / Fassmer , Berne | Greenpeace | since 2011 | active |
Web links
Commons : Rainbow Warrior - collection of images, videos and audio files
Footnotes
- ^ William Donald Coleman, Louis W. Pauly: Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World . UBC Press, 2009