Rainbow Warrior (ship, 1955)

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Rainbow Warrior
Side elevation of the Rainbow Warrior
Side elevation of the Rainbow Warrior
Ship data
flag NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
other ship names
  • Sir William Hardy (1955-1977)
Ship type Fisheries research vessel
home port Amsterdam , Netherlands
Owner 1955–1977: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1978–1985: Greenpeace
Shipyard Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Launch 1955
takeover 1978
Whereabouts Sunk after assassination (July 10, 1985)
Ship dimensions and crew
length
44 m ( Lüa )
Draft Max. 4.6 m
displacement 418  t
 
crew 15th
Machine system
machine 2 × diesel-electric
Top
speed 		12 kn (22 km / h)
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Ketch
Number of masts 1.5
Sail area 620 m²
Speed
under sail 		Max. 7 kn (13 km / h)

The Rainbow Warrior (unofficially Rainbow Warrior I called) was a 1955-built fishing - research vessel of the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) and was 1978 to 1985 by the environmental organization Greenpeace bereedert who were also owners. The English name means rainbow warrior .

Acquisition and stakes

The Rainbow Warrior , a 44-meter-long ship weighing 418 tons, was launched in 1955 as the fishing steamer Sir William Hardy (later Vega ). Greenpeace bought the ship for £ 40,000  , largely funded by the Dutch section of WWF , after which it was renovated for four months. On April 29, 1978, the ship became the new flagship of the Greenpeace fleet as Rainbow Warrior to protest against whaling worldwide, especially off Iceland . The engines were renewed in 1981, and in 1985 the ship was converted into a “one and a half master” - ketch .

The ship was rammed by a French navy ship in 1980 when the crew protested against the unloading of nuclear waste for processing in La Hague .

In 1985 the Rainbow Warrior transported the inhabitants of the Rongelap Atoll , which had been contaminated by American nuclear tests, to Kwajalein , the US government had refused to resettle them.

Sinking

In 1985 the Rainbow Warrior was supposed to drive to Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia to protest against the French nuclear tests taking place there . When she was anchored in the port of Auckland , she was sunk on July 10, 1985 by agents of the French Foreign Intelligence Service ( DGSE ). The Dutch-Portuguese Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira drowned . The wreck is still at its sinking site and is now a popular diving destination.

Rainbow Warrior, December 1985 in Auckland

reception

music

Musically, the Rainbow Warrior became the topic several times:

  • Rainbow Land .. ( for Greenpeace ) by the folk rock group Ape, Beck and Brinkmann (1982 - video with contemporary film recordings)
  • The German band Alphaville mentioned them in their song Fantastic Dream on the 1986 album Afternoons in Utopia .
  • The American rock band White Lion released the song Little Fighter about the ship in 1989 on the album Big Game .
  • The Argentine metal band Rata Blanca dedicated the song and album Guerrero del Arco Iris to the ship in 1991 .
  • The band Fiddler's Green celebrated the fate of the Rainbow Warrior in 1995 with a song of the same name.
  • The New Zealand songwriter Anika Moa is mainly known in Germany for the title Anchor Me on the Greenpeace single of the same name, which was released on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the sinking.

Movies

literature

Opera

The Sydney Festival 1997, the opera was The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by Amanda Stewart with the composer Colin Bright premiered.

Web links

Commons : Rainbow Warrior  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Barbara Rose Johnston, Atomic Times in the Pacific. Anthropology Now 1/2, SPECIAL ATOMIC ISSUE (September 2009), 3rd JSTOR 41203536
  2. ↑ YouTube
  3. ↑ "The Rainbow Warrior" set course for Iceland in 1978. It is the first of many missions where the young crew will risk their lives. The legendary Greenpeace ship was in service until the mid-1980s. The team thwarted whalers' trajectories, messed with nuclear waste freighters and demonstrated against nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll. The activists are celebrated as rock stars for their audacity. And today? In the documentary, the eco-idols look back, proud and self-critical. The tragic end of the Rainbow Warrior still won't let her go. " See separate paragraph here. In a version with German subtitles, the film was shown in about 100 cities in Germany in the winter of 2010/11, depending on the choice of local forces, as part of the series Über-Mut der Aktion Mensch

Coordinates: 34 ° 58 ′ 29.3 ″  S , 173 ° 56 ′ 5.6 ″  E