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The Rainbow Warrior

Topic | 23 April, 2008 at 12:55

Greenpeace is building the world's first purpose-built environmental campaigning ship - the new Rainbow Warrior.

Our Ships

Topic | 12 September, 2008 at 15:58

The Greenpeace fleet of ships is a unique asset in the battle to save planet Earth and protect the global commons. Our ships are used at the forefront of Greenpeace campaigning, often sailing to remote areas to bear witness and take action...

Bombing 30th Anniversary

Topic | 1 July, 2015 at 2:30

Just before midnight on 10 July, 1985, French agents bombed the Rainbow Warrior. Their aim? To stop Greenpeace disrupting French nuclear testing in the Pacific. Two explosions sank the ship and killed photographer Fernando Pereira. The French...

Anti War Protest Ends in Arrests

Press release | 15 March, 2003 at 1:00

 

Greenpeace ship boarded by Spanish police in antiwar protest

Press release | 14 March, 2003 at 1:00

 

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

Feature story | 2 July, 2009 at 2:00

Our famous fleet of ships is about to get an extraordinary addition - The Rainbow Warrior III. It will be purpose built from the keel up to fight the greatest threat to the oceans and our world: climate change.

The original Rainbow Warrior

Background | 12 September, 2011 at 15:30

The original Rainbow Warrior started life as the 'Sir William Hardy' -- a fishery research trawler used by the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. It was built in 1955, and was the first diesel electric ship built in the United Kingdom.

The second Rainbow Warrior

Background | 16 August, 2011 at 12:07

She's been bombed, impounded, rammed by government ships, raided by police... and loved by millions of people. After 52 years at sea (21 years as a Greenpeace campaigning ship), the Rainbow Warrior II retired from her Greenpeace life on August...

The French Spy Story

Background | 9 July, 2010 at 23:25

Nothing is ever true, so the saying goes, until it has been officially denied. The French Government terrorist bombing of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior is a classic case.

Rainbow Warrior aids tsunami survivors

Feature story | 3 January, 2005 at 1:00

Our ship, the Rainbow Warrior, is helping medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to get relief supplies to parts of Indonesia devastated by the Indian Ocean earthquake.

Rainbow Warrior delivers MSF aid to Beirut

Feature story | 7 August, 2006 at 2:00

The Rainbow Warrior has returned to Larnaca, Cyprus, after its second trip to Beirut delivering a total of 60 tonnes of urgently needed humanitarian supplies on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). A further hundred tonnes are still...

Rainbow Warrior to aid MSF's humanitarian work in Lebanon

Feature story | 2 August, 2006 at 16:03

We have offered Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) the use of the Rainbow Warrior for transporting much-needed supplies to Lebanon. The vessel was already in the Mediterranean and has now docked in Larnaca, Cyprus for loading medical supplies.

Tsunami and the environment

Feature story | 10 January, 2005 at 1:00

On December 26 a massive tsunami swept through the Indian Ocean region to become arguably the largest natural disaster in living memory. Questions are now being asked: what are the environmental impacts of this tragedy? Did damaged environments...

Yellow River at Risk

Press release | 10 October, 2005 at 2:00

Scientists say a catalogue of environmental damage linked to climate change is pushing the Yellow River source region into an ecological breakdown, in a new survey commissioned by Greenpeace.

Greenpeace launches a new Rainbow Warrior

Press release | 14 October, 2011 at 15:57

Amsterdam - Berne-Motzen, 14th October 2011 -- At a ceremony in Berne-Motzen, Germany, Greenpeace today launched the third version of its protest vessel the Rainbow Warrior. Purpose built as a campaigning vessel, the Rainbow Warrior carries...

Endangered species - saved!

Feature story | 15 October, 2004 at 2:00

The Rainbow Warrior sails home today safe in the knowledge that we have secured --for now-- the future of many species including the minke whale, the great white shark and the irrawaddy dolphin.

A new Rainbow Warrior sets sail

Feature story | 14 October, 2011 at 17:10

The Earth has a new champion. In Bremerhaven, Germany, we’ve held the naming ceremony for the world’s first purpose-built, crowd-bought, eco-sleek sailing vessel, the new Rainbow Warrior.

Fernando Pereira

Background | 12 September, 2011 at 15:18

He joined the crew of the Rainbow Warrior to bring his pictures of French nuclear testing to the world. When secret agents bombed the ship, his peaceful intention cost Fernando Pereira his life. A determined photographer, a family man, a Rainbow...

Our first tuna ship contact

Blog entry by Rainbow Warrior | 7 August, 2015 1 comment

The Pacific is a big ocean. You can sail for days without seeing another ship (as we just did). But now we're in the fishing grounds, and starting to spot fishing vessels. Knowing where to go There're some things you can't know...

Desperately Seeking: South Pacific Albacore tuna

Blog entry by Dr Cat Dorey | 7 August, 2015 1 comment

There's a tendency, outside my science world at least, to talk about 'tuna' as if it was one species of fish. In fact tuna is a generic name for a whole bunch of tuna and mackerel species. As well as the main commercial species of...

Rainbow Warrior sets sail with a hold full of stories

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | 19 October, 2011 6 comments

We've set sail. The world's first crowd-funded, hyper-efficient, purpose-built environmental activist sailing ship has left harbour in Bremen and we're on our way to Hamburg. To all of you who made this voyage possible, you have the...

Rainbow Warriors - past, present and future

Blog entry by Lisa | 3 July, 2009

We are excited about the creation of a new Greenpeace ship - the Rainbow Warrior III . Having just signed a contract for the build of this state-of-the-art vessel - three crew members from the Rainbow Warrior I and II take us back in...

Greenpeace begins construction of new Rainbow Warrior, marking 25th anniversary of...

Press release | 10 July, 2010 at 17:00

Gdansk, Poland, 10 JULY 2010 -- Twenty-five years after two bombs planted by French secret agents sank the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, New Zealand - murdering photographer and father of two, Fernando Pereira - Greenpeace commemorated...

A mothership your mother wouldn’t like

Blog entry by Oliver Knowles | 27 August, 2015 3 comments

Motherships… transshipping… they sound like things you'd find in outer space while you're star trekking across the universe. But the Rainbow Warrior is finding them way out in the high seas, in areas of the Pacific Ocean that are more...

Who we are

Background | 29 March, 2007 at 14:37

I'm vegan - here's why I'm fighting to change the tuna industry

Blog entry by Dawn Bickett | 22 October, 2015 1 comment

As a vegan, Dawn Bickett used to feel removed from the issue of sustainable seafood. But after documenting the Pacific tuna industry's destructive ways with the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, she's determined to do more to protect...

Rainbow Warrior arrives in Cuba to document the island’s eco food system

Press release | 13 January, 2017 at 23:40

Havana, Cuba 11 January 2017 - Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior, arrived in Cuba for the first time to host a conversation between Mexican scientists and farmers and their Cuban counterparts, responsible for researching and practising large scale...

New Zealand: Ready and Waiting

Feature story | 5 January, 2007 at 11:43

As the Esperanza heads for Auckland, the Greenpeace New Zealand team are eagerly awaiting her arrival. With the ship comes old friends and colleagues, from New Zealand and around the world. Carol in our New Zealand office reflects on the shared...

Pacific islands continue to suffer nuclear injustice with latest plutonium transport

Feature story | 13 July, 2002 at 2:00

Pacific islands have been nuclear testing and dumping grounds for many years. Islands have been evacuated, the people plagued by birth defects and cancer. And the nuclear injustice continues even now as weapons-usable plutonium is transported...

The unstoppable power of contagious courage

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 9 July, 2015 1 comment

Thirty years ago, groups of individuals in New Zealand were preparing to leave their families, their jobs and their homes to set off in small boats across the Pacific Ocean into a nuclear weapons testing zone. They hoped that their...

Rainbow Warrior marks 30th anniversary of bombing with action to save the Great...

Press release | 10 July, 2015 at 15:47

Sydney, Australia, 10 July, 2015 - Greenpeace activists from the flagship Rainbow Warrior today took action against the mass of coal ships in Australian waters, waiting to export climate change worldwide.

Earth is in danger, but only we can save ourselves

Blog entry by Peter Willcox | 17 June, 2016 1 comment

I’ve been a captain for Greenpeace for 35 years, fighting for our environment in every corner of the globe. I’ve confronted polluters, poachers, smugglers, terrorists, criminals – both private and corporate – armies, navies, vigilantes...

Inspired by History

Blog entry by Nikos Charalambides | 10 July, 2014 4 comments

It was 29 years ago today that the Rainbow Warrior came to rest at the bottom of the port of Auckland after her bombing by French secret service agents. She took Fernando with her. We will always remember both. I was not there,...

Greenpeace calls for international rejection of Japanese plans to increase whale kill

Press release | 12 April, 2005 at 2:00

Plans by the Government of Japan to 'sharply' increase its take of minke whales and to resume catching both fin and humpback whales under the guise of scientific research, are a deadly slap in the face for the international community, making a...

Revolutionary masts raised on new Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior

Press release | 8 July, 2011 at 17:23

Berne-Motzen, Germany (July 8, 2011) -- A revolutionary mast system was raised today on the new Greenpeace flagship ship Rainbow Warrior III, at the Fassmer shipyard near Bremen, marking a key milestone in the ship’s construction and coinciding...

Fishermen confirm shark finning on tuna longliners

Blog entry by Dan Salmon | 21 August, 2015

The cruel yet lucrative shark fin trade is back in the headlines and it's clearly something people care deeply about, public pressure and a petition signed by nearly 180,000 people, prompted shipping giant United Parcel Service...

Bankrupt plutonium company threatened by the collapse of its largest customer

Press release | 7 September, 2002 at 2:00

The troubles of already bankrupt British Nuclear Fuels deepen as its two largest clients suffer catastrophic events. The UK taxpayer may have to foot the bill.

Greenpeace activists block Spanish and Turkish military ports

Press release | 14 March, 2003 at 1:00

Greenpeace enters 3rd day of protest with sit-in outside Thai coal plant

Press release | 9 December, 2005 at 1:00

Greenpeace activists from Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, together with community leaders, today led a sit-in outside the BLCP coal power plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, blockading the road to the plant, as the protest against the...

Rainbow Warrior kick-starts Greenpeace Asian Energy Revolution Tour in Hong Kong

Press release | 9 October, 2005 at 2:00

Greenpeace called for an Asian clean energy revolution today at the launch of its upcoming ship tour aboard its flagship, the Rainbow Warrior. The environmental group said urgent action was needed to tackle global warming.

Rainbow Warrior To Set Sail to Shut Down Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishing

Press release | 15 May, 2010 at 14:07

Valetta, Malta. The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior intends to depart tomorrow on a campaign to defend the Mediterranean and halt destructive bluefin tuna fishing operations.

Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior brings relief to Vanuatu's stranded islands

Press release | 17 May, 2015 at 1:00

Port Vila, 16 May, 2015 - Greenpeace's flagship vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, will arrive in Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on Monday to help deliver relief to Vanuatu's outlying islands, many of which are still stranded without electricity or...

People from the Philippines and Pacific Island nations sign declaration to hold big...

Press release | 12 June, 2015 at 23:00

Clarification: we have edited this release after it was issued. The original was open to misrepresentation to give the impression that the Climate Justice Declaration had been signed by the President of Vanuatu rather than that he was present at...

Spook scandal: the hidden face of the nuclear industry

Feature story | 2 April, 2009 at 18:09

Twenty-four years after the attack by the French secret services against our ship the Rainbow Warrior - which cost the life of a Greenpeace photographer - the nuclear industry is once again at the heart a major spy scandal involving Greenpeace.

Quit coal, save the climate! 2008 campaign highlights

Feature story | 22 December, 2008 at 1:00

Quit coal – save the climate. It's a simple message, but it's also an urgent one. Coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels is the single greatest contributor to the climate crisis. In 2008, we've been taking the "quit coal" message across the world...

E.ON’s coal construction brought to a full stop

Feature story | 15 November, 2008 at 1:00

Supported by the Rainbow Warrior, a hundred of our volunteer activists occupied the construction site of the new E.ON coal fired power plant in Rotterdam. They halted construction for 10 hours before they were all arrested by police. Special...

Armada of activists descends on Kingsnorth

Feature story | 29 October, 2008 at 1:00

A nine-boat protest armada led by the Rainbow Warrior has arrived at Britain's most controversial power station with dozens of activists from around the world filling the jetty at the plant in Kent.

Commemoration, Peace, and Action in Auckland and Paris

Feature story | 10 July, 2005 at 2:00

It was twenty years ago that two explosions sank our flagship, Rainbow Warrior, and killed our photographer, Fernando Pereira. To mark this anniversary, we brought original crewmembers and new activists together to pay tribute to a colleague...

Recipe for peace

Feature story | 24 February, 2003 at 1:00

Jo comes from London and cooks for the 20 people on board the Rainbow Warrior everyday. She makes us mouth watering dishes that keep everyone working hard on deck and in the engine room and contented at rest. How does she do it?

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