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The new flagshipFor 33 years the Rainbow Warrior has been the epitome of Greenpeace’s fight for a better world. Starting in October a new Warrior will set out for her first mission and continue the history of the legendary ship.

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Profound belief Since 1978 Greenpeace activists have been using a converted trawler, even in remote regions like the Arctic, to protest and take action against crimes such as whaling and the culling of seals.

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Profound belief Since 1978 Greenpeace activists have been using a converted trawler, even in remote regions like the Arctic, to protest and take action against crimes such as whaling and the culling of seals.

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Last mission In May 1985 the crew of the Rainbow Warrior evacuates the inhabitants of the island Rongelap in the South Pacific, which has been entirely radioactively contaminated. This was to be the first Warrior’s last passage.

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Last mission In May 1985 the crew of the Rainbow Warrior evacuates the inhabitants of the island Rongelap in the South Pacific, which has been entirely radioactively contaminated. This was to be the first Warrior’s last passage.

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Bomb Strike Auckland/ New Zealand’s harbour On July 10 French foreign intelligence services carried out the murderous attack on the Rainbow Warrior, sinking the flagship. The operation, which kills Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, causes worldwide outrage.

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Bomb Strike Auckland/ New Zealand’s harbour On July 10 French foreign intelligence services carried out the murderous attack on the Rainbow Warrior, sinking the flagship. The operation, which kills Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, causes worldwide outrage.

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Fernando Pereira *10 May 1950 †10 July 1985

“I will never forget the weight on my shoulders as we carried Fernando’s coffin out of the church …. The bombing of 1985 confirmed that what I was doing had a meaning …. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior procured us a place in the public eye and attention that effectively contributed to the force that Greenpeace should be and ultimately had to be.”

Peter Willcox, captain of the Rainbow Warrior since 1978. Rainbow Warrior III will also be sailing under his command.

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You can’t sink a rainbow Four years after the sinking of her predecessor a new Rainbow Warrior continues the story. The three-masted ship was financed with the compensation received from France, following the attack on the first Warrior.

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You can’t sink a rainbow Four years after the sinking of her predecessor a new Rainbow Warrior continues the story. The three-masted ship was financed with the compensation received from France, following the attack on the first Warrior.

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Peace against violence In 1992 the Dalai Lama visits the Rainbow Warrior II. In 1995 activists protesting against nuclear weapons tests of Moruroa are once again brutally treated by French soldiers.

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Peace against violence In 1992 the Dalai Lama visits the Rainbow Warrior II. In 1995 activists protesting against nuclear weapons tests of Moruroa are once again brutally treated by French soldiers.

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The FirsT rainbow warrior

29th April 1978 – 10th July 1985

The second rainbow warrior

10th July – 16th August 2011

Greenpeace converts an old fishery research vessel into the Rainbow Warrior, to undertake campaigns against whaling, seal cull-ing and nuclear power tests. On July 10th, the French secret service sinks the Rainbow Warrior through a bomb attack.

With a three-mast con-verted high seas trawler, Greenpeace continues to fight against environmental crimes worldwide. After twenty-two years, the RWII is passed on to the aid organisation ‘Friendship’ and will be used as a first-aid vessel.

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The new rainbow warrior14th October 2011 – …..

The new Greenpeace flagship is the first high seas

sailing vessel, that Greenpeace has constructed ,

funded entirely through donations. The new Rainbow

Warrior continues to fight for a better world, just

liker her predecessors.

Video: Rainbow Warrior III’s history

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Nowadays, Greenpeace needs more than just a former fishing trawler for its worldwide campaigns

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Nowadays, Greenpeace needs more than just a former fishing trawler for its worldwide campaigns

Christian Bussau Greenpeace team leader ‘Task force, special projects, rapid response’

Designed by a Dutch yacht designer, digitally planned and constructed for over a year by the engineers of the Fassmer shipyard in Bremen with support from Greenpeace, and funded by Greenpeace members: The new Warrior is a one-of-a kind sailing vessel for demanding campaigns.

Purpose-built cranes can launch zodiacs extremely quickly into the water.

A helicopter landing field enables sorties over the high seas.

The 50 m high rigging makes the Rainbow Warrior into an efficient sailing ship.

Modern communication systems can transmit pictures directly from the high seas to media worldwide.

A campaign office, a hospital and a conference room for up to 50 people.

Waste water tanks and an on-board reverse osmosis water makershall provide clean water.

Length: 57.92 m

Width: 11.30 m

Draught: max 5.15

Crew: max 32

Sail area: 1,256 m2

Speed under sails: 14 kn

... Greenpeace needs a powerful sailing vessel

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The Polish city of Gdansk is charged with history, it was here, in the summer of

1980 that Lech Walesa founded the Solidarity Union, and it is here, where, 30 years later the construction of the Rainbow Warrior III will take place.

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Hundreds of steel plates, sliced by a com-puter-controlled plasma cutter according to engineer’s plans, are welded together by workers of the Gdansk Maritim shipyard to form the hull of the Rainbow Warrior III.

From a sketch into a steel hull

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The work will take roughly six months

The work will take roughly six months

The experienced workers put seven prefabricated parts together to make the hull, keel, deck, and superstructure.

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Manual labour

The steel hull’s individual parts are initially held in place with the help of manually-oper-ated hydraulic pumps and then thoroughly welded together, to make a solid hull.

Video: Rainbow Warrior’s hull

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The steel giant is 57, 92 metres long and 11, 30 metres wide

The steel giant is 57, 92 metres long and 11, 30 metres wide

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The steel structure will be fixed on a pontoon so it can

be launched into the water. The destination of the new Rainbow Warrior’s first journey is noted with fluorescent paint on the vessel’s hull:

The Fassmer shipyard in Berne, near Bremen

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In November 2010, 340 tons of steel are launched into the water to take on the 2-day long journey to the next building site.

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The first journey: 1,100 km in 50 hours – backwards

Video: Arrival at the shipyard in Berne, Bremen

Same perspective, different location: After the structural work in Gdansk it is now time for detailed work in Berne

Same perspective, different location: After the structural work in Gdansk it is now time for detailed work in Berne

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Many rescue cruisers, research vessels and even parts of offshore wind turbines have been

manufactured at the Fassmer shipyard. However, the job to complete the Rainbow Warrior is something extraordinary even for the experts: the job is a high-tech sailing vessel, with extensive equipment that much reach the highest environmental standards.

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What engineers and Greenpeace experts planned on drawing boards months ago, is now being created in the shipyard

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Kilometres of wire make up a modern communication system

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Video: Electrical engineering on the Rainbow Warrior III

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The Rainbow Warrior will go to where environ-mental crimes are happening, even to places where nobody else will go. So the list of requirements is long, like a campaigning office, from which pictures and videos can be transmitted worldwide, a confer-ence room for up to 50 people and a small open sea hospital ward. Not forgetting two rubbish compac-tors, a wastewater system and a small machine that chops up glass bottles.

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Constructing the machinery is not an easy task: The engine, here being lowered into the hull with a special-crane, provides the vessel with the power of 1.425 kilowatt and top speed of 15 knots. Nevertheless it won’t be called into action often. according to the plan, the Rainbow Warrior shall be under sail for 90% of the time. Under full sail the vessel will also make up to 15 knots, 28 kilome-tres per hour.

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The engineer’s many special requests are particularly challenging for the technicians

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From rust-brown steel to Greenpeace green. Adding the outer coat is one of the easiest tasks for the experts of the Fassmer shipyard. More inter-esting is the section under the waterline. To achieve smooth sailing, the Rainbow Warrior III has a dynamic keel, which gives a draught of 5.1 metres.

New colour for the new Greenpeace flagship

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Outside she’s the same, inside everything is new

Outside she’s the same, inside everything is new Video: Sliding into water

Out of the hall, onto the water. The rest of the detailed work will be carried out on water.

Stepping out ceremony on the new Rainbow Warrior: Both of the 54 metre high masts are put in place. Four sails shall capture the wind and provide speed.

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Stepping out ceremony on the new Rainbow Warrior: Both of the 54 metre high masts are put in place. Four sails shall capture the wind and provide speed.

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Video: Installation of masts

Two masts and 1,256 square metres of sail will make the engine dispensable

To be continued …

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Production and Editorial Team:plan p. GmbH, Hamburg

Photos: Oliver Tjaden (49), Jean Deloffre, Pierre Gleizes, Marcus Meyer (4), Steve Morgan (2), Fernando Pereira, Malcom Pullmann, Keith Scott all © Greenpeace

V.i.S.d.P.: Michael Pauli

Graphics: © VSTEP Ship Simulator Extremes and Dykstra & Partners

Photo Editorial Team: Michael Pauli

Camera:Jens Paschke, Dirk Treske

Cut: Tobias Steinigeweg, Oliver Stammel

Layout:plan p. GmbH, Hamburg