Rainbow Warrior (1957)

The Rainbow Warrior in the Bosphorus (2009)

  • Kashmir (1957-1962)
  • Ross Kashmir (1962-1982)
  • Grampian Fame (1957-1989)
  • Rainbow Warrior (1989-2011)
  • Rongdhonu ( since 2011 )

IMO no. 5300481

The Rainbow Warrior ( unofficially called Rainbow Warrior II, German: Rainbow Warrior) was a motor-assisted schooner that was bereedert 1989-2011 by the environmental organization Greenpeace, who were also owners. It was the successor to the 1985 sunken ship Rainbow Warrior ( Rainbow Warrior I). Meanwhile, the ship is called Rongdhonu, the Bengali word for rainbow.

History

The Rainbow Warrior II was on 10 July 1989, the anniversary of the sinking of her predecessor, officially on its maiden voyage. He was financed by a part of the French indemnity had received Greenpeace in 1987. The basis for the three-masted formed the body of the deep-sea trawler Grampian Fame, who had run in 1957 in Selby in Yorkshire from the stack. The originally 44 meters long, steam-powered ship in 1966 increased to 55.2 meters. In the reconstruction by Greenpeace, the ship received masts in gaff rigging, a new engine and environmentally friendly waste, heating and hot water systems.

The Rainbow Warrior II was taken during a campaign against nuclear power in operation and has accompanied in their 22 years of service actions against overfishing, whaling, war, global warming and other environmental crimes on every ocean of the world. Last time was the ship on the 28th March 2011 before the Japanese coast to the removal of seawater samples after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in use.

The following off-duty Asked Rainbow Warrior II was passed on August 16, 2011 in a ceremony in Singapore on Friendship, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Bangladesh. The ship will continue to be on the road as a floating hospital off the coast of Bangladesh and providing medical care for people in impoverished areas are used, among other things by natural disasters such as tsunamis and cyclones. The Rainbow Warrior II was renamed to the name of Friendship Rongdhonu, which means rainbow. The Rongdhonu first ran 29 August 2011 in the harbor of the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh. Here it should be rebuilt within six months in a hospital ship and equipped with a 15-member crew. On 14 November 2012, the ship could enter service by year of renovation work. The equipment was chosen so that treatments in the areas of ophthalmology, dentistry, gynecology and pediatrics can be performed on the ship. It is planned that the ship will sail the coastal strip between Mongla and Teknaf, as coastal residents there have no or only limited access to medical care. The Rongdhonu making it the third and newest ship in the fleet of charity.

Remodeling (2011)

Trivia

On 5 July 1999, the British pop duo Eurythmics gave a concert in aid of Amnesty International and Greenpeace, as a backdrop in the port of London was the ship Rainbow Warrior II

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