What was the name of the Greenpeace ship sunk in Auckland harbour in 1985?
"French mail; and consumers boycotted French products. In 1985 the Greenpeace ship ""Rainbow Warrior"" was bombed and sunk by the French DGSE in Auckland, New Zealand, as it prepared for another protest of nuclear testing in French military zones. One crew member, Fernando Pereira of Portugal, photographer, drowned on the sinking ship. In January 2004, up to 15,000 anti-nuclear protesters marched in Paris against a new generation of nuclear reactors, the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR). On March 17, 2007, simultaneous protests, organised by Sortir du nucléaire, were staged in 5 French towns to protest construction of EPR plants. After Japan's"
"An act of sabotage, sometimes regarded as an act of terrorism, was the peace-time sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a ship owned by Greenpeace, which occurred while in port at Auckland, New Zealand on July 10, 1985. The bomb detonation killed Fernando Pereira, a Dutch photographer. The organisation who committed the attack, the DGSE, is a branch of France's intelligence services. The agents responsible pleaded guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea deal and were sentenced to ten years in prison, but were secretly released early to France under an agreement between the two countries' governments. Another example is"
"The ""Rainbow Warrior"" led a flotilla of yachts protesting against French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia and was about to depart Auckland for a campaign of legal demonstrations in international waters near the French military operational areas at Moruroa Atoll. The Greenpeace flagship ""Rainbow Warrior"" lay moored at Auckland's Marsden Wharf on Wednesday, 10 July 1985. It had arrived in New Zealand from Vanuatu three days earlier - a week after President Haruo Remeliik had been assassinated in Palau. Greenpeace campaigners were preparing the former North Sea fishing trawler for the environmental group's"
"the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) opened an investigation into the matter. In an earlier review of the programme, the position of the PSNI was that none of the statements by soldiers in the programme could be taken as an admission of criminality. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior took place in New Zealand's Auckland Harbour on July 10, 1985. It was an attack carried out by French DGSE agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart aimed at sinking the flagship craft of the Greenpeace Organisation to stop her from interfering in French nuclear testing in the South"
"yachts protesting against French nuclear testing at the Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia. During previous nuclear tests at Mururoa, protest ships had been boarded by French commandos after sailing into the shipping exclusion zone around the atoll. For the 1985 tests, Greenpeace intended to monitor the impact of nuclear tests and place protesters on the island to monitor the blasts. The French Government infiltrated the Auckland offices of the organisation and discovered these plans. ""Rainbow Warrior"", then captained by Peter Willcox, was sabotaged and sunk just before midnight NZST on 10 July 1985, by two explosive"
"Pereira, was the only victim of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland. On the 10th of July, 1985, two French DGSE agents bombed the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's flagship, which was scheduled to depart New Zealand to disrupt nuclear testing in French Polynesia. This was to date the only foreign attack on New Zealand's soil. Today, the Portuguese are part of an even larger Portuguese-speaking community in New Zealand, that also includes Brazilians, East Timorese and Macanese. Portuguese New Zealanders Portuguese New Zealanders are either Portuguese who migrated to New Zealand, or New Zealanders of Portuguese"
"its anti-nuclear policy and return to a fully operational defence relationship with the US. President Reagan also maintained in ""NSDD 193"" (National Security Decision Directive) that New Zealand still remained a ""friend, but not an ally"". On 10 July 1985, agents of the French Directorate-General for External Security bombed the Greenpeace protest vessel ""Rainbow Warrior"" in Auckland, causing one death. The failure of Western leaders to condemn this violation of a friendly nation's sovereignty caused a great deal of change in New Zealand's foreign and defence policy, and strengthened domestic opposition to the military application of nuclear technology in any"
"another Greenpeace campaign. 1981: Offshore Oil drilling on Georges Bank 1982: Stopping National Lead Industries from dumping a million gallons of sulfuric acid off the New Jersey beaches every day. Seal killing in Canada Dolphin killing as part of the tuna industry in the Pacific Whaling campaign in Peru 1983 Seismic surveying off the coast of California. Driftnet fishing in North Pacific Whaling by Russia in Bering Sea 1985 Relocating the village of Rongalap in the Marshall Islands who were victims of the U.S. Atomic Testing program Rainbow Warrior was blown up in Auckland by French military personnel, killing shipmate"
"mercury switch. To this day, the perpetrator has never been identified. Those elements of the New Zealand Police responsible for preventing and investigating such crimes were headquartered in the building across the street. Perhaps the best known attack in New Zealand was the sinking of the Greenpeace vessel ""Rainbow Warrior"" by the French foreign intelligence service, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), in 1985. Greenpeace had planned to use the ""Rainbow Warrior"" as part of protest efforts over French nuclear testing at Moruroa, and DGSE divers sank the vessel by detonating mines against its hull while it was"
"program (unlike the United States). On 10 July 1985, the ""action"" branch of the French foreign intelligence services carried out the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. During the operation, two operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland, New Zealand. The French government wanted to prevent the ship from interfering with a planned nuclear test in Moruroa. In April 2013, the French interior intelligence agency DCRI attempted to have the article about the Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station removed from the French language Wikipedia. The DCRI pressured a volunteer administrator of the French"
"led by the Greenpeace campaign ship, ""Rainbow Warrior"". The Action Division of the French Directorate-General for External Security devised a plan to sink the ""Rainbow Warrior"" while it was berthed in harbor at Auckland in New Zealand. Two divers from the Division posed as tourists and attached two limpet mines to the ship's hull; the resulting explosion sank the ship and killed a Netherlands citizen on board. Two agents from the team, but not the divers, were arrested by the New Zealand Police and later convicted of manslaughter. The French government finally admitted responsibility two months later. In 1989, during"
"halted. However, another series of tests was conducted in 1995. A Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior benefit concert at Mt. Smart Stadium, Auckland, on 5 April 1986 included performances by Herbs, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Topp Twins, Dave Dobbyn and a Split Enz reunion. The ""Rainbow Warrior"" was refloated for forensic examination. She was deemed irreparable and scuttled at in Matauri Bay, near the Cavalli Islands, on 12 December 1987, to serve as a dive wreck and fish sanctuary. Her masts had been removed and put on display at the Dargaville Maritime Museum. On 14 October 2011, Greenpeace launched a"
"was the sinking of Greenpeace's ""Rainbow Warrior"" by French DGSE agents in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, on July 10, 1985, killing one person. Egyptian limpets were modified by the CIA for use by the Mujaheddin in the Soviet Afghan war, and could be attached to Soviet trucks. In the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, limpets were used by liberation fighters in Operation Jackpot, in Mongla seaport, Naval Commandos damaged many Pakistani army support ship and gunboats. Argentinian commandos planned to use limpet mines during Operation Algeciras during the Falklands War. Notes Bibliography Limpet mine A limpet mine is a type"
"with 80,238 signatures to the New Zealand Parliament calling on the government to sponsor an international conference to discuss establishing a nuclear-free-zone in the southern hemisphere. It was the biggest New Zealand petition since the one in 1893 demanding votes for women. In 1972, in a joint Greenpeace and CND(NZ) campaign, the yacht Vega was re-named ""Greenpeace III"", and it sailed in a defiant protest into the atomic exclusion zone at Mururoa Atoll. The Vega was rammed by a French military warship and David McTaggart (co-founder of Greenpeace International) was severely beaten by French military police in a second voyage"
"hold till his death). Hernu was made Minister for Defence after the victory of Mitterrand in the presidential election of 1981. He held this position in the successive governments led by Prime Ministers Pierre Mauroy and Laurent Fabius. On 10 July 1985, two bombs were exploded on board the Greenpeace ship ""Rainbow Warrior"" while in the port of Auckland, New Zealand by agents of the DGSE. This attack caused the death of Fernando Pereira, a Dutch photographer of Portuguese origins. A scandal erupted and led to Hernu's resignation two months later. Hernu died in Villeurbanne, aged 66. After his death"
"was being contested by environmental protesters led by the Greenpeace campaign ship, ""Rainbow Warrior"". The Action Division of the French Directorate-General for External Security devised a plan to sink the ""Rainbow Warrior"" while it was berthed in harbor at Auckland in New Zealand. Two divers from the Division posed as tourists and attached two limpet mines to the ship's hull; the resulting explosion sank the ship and killed a Netherlands citizen on board. Two agents from the team, but not the divers, were arrested by the New Zealand Police and later convicted of manslaughter. The French government finally admitted responsibility"
"collided with the French naval minesweeper ""La Paimpolaise"" while in international waters to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific. In 1973 the New Zealand Peace Media organised an international flotilla of protest yachts including the Fri, Spirit of Peace, Boy Roel, Magic Island and the Tanmure to sail into the test exclusion zone. Also in 1973, New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk as a symbolic act of protest sent two navy frigates, HMNZS Canterbury and HMNZS Otago, to Mururoa. They were accompanied by HMAS ""Supply"", a fleet oiler of the Royal Australian Navy. In 1985 the Greenpeace"
"two frogmen to plant on the ship's hull on the night of 10 July 1985. The explosions sank the vessel and killed photographer Fernando Pereira. They were arrested by New Zealand police within 30 hours of the bombing, and originally charged with Pereira's murder. Prieur was transferred to Christchurch Women's Prison and held there awaiting trial. Prieur pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter and wilful damage in the Auckland District Court, and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on 22 November 1985. After serious political pressure from France and her allies, the New Zealand government agreed to a United Nations"
"did not significantly deviate from his predecessors and he continued nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific in spite of protests from various peace and environmentalist organizations. In 1985, French agents sank the Greenpeace-owned ex-trawler ""Rainbow Warrior"" which the group had used in demonstrations against nuclear tests, whaling, and seal hunting. One Greenpeace member was killed, and when news broke of the event, a major scandal erupted that led to the resignation of Defense Minister Charles Hernu. France subsequently paid reparations of 1.8 million USD to Greenpeace. Before the 1986 legislative campaign, proportional representation was instituted in accordance with the"
"carried out on July 10, 1985. It aimed to sink the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the ""Rainbow Warrior"" in the port of Auckland, New Zealand, to prevent her from interfering in a nuclear test in Moruroa. The scandal resulted in the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hernu, and the subject remained controversial. It was twenty years afterwards that the personal responsibility of French President François Mitterrand was admitted. The French daily newspaper ""Le Monde"" printed newly declassified government memos and diplomatic telegrams revealing Mitterrand's support for Habyariamana's regime on July 6, 2007. The official French policy was"
"ship ""Rainbow Warrior"" was bombed and sunk by the French DGSE in Auckland, New Zealand, as it prepared for another protest of nuclear testing in French military zones. One crew member, Fernando Pereira of Portugal, photographer, drowned on the sinking ship while attempting to recover his photographic equipment. Two members of DGSE were captured and sentenced, but eventually repatriated to France in a controversial affair. In the Philippines, a focal point for protests in the late 1970s and 1980s was the proposed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which was built but never operated. The project was criticised for being a potential"
"the right of peaceful protest and abhor the use of violence."" Greenpeace was represented by Lloyd Cutler and Gary Born of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering. The wreck of ""Rainbow Warrior"" was refloated on 21 August 1985 and moved to a naval harbour for forensic examination. Although the hull had been recovered, the damage was too extensive for repair and the vessel was scuttled in Matauri Bay in the Cavalli Islands, New Zealand, on 12 December 1987, to serve as a dive wreck and artificial reef to promote marine life. The hull is now covered with a large colony of vari-coloured"
"Greenpeace Australia Pacific Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GPAP) is the regional office of the global environmental organization Greenpeace. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is one of Australia's largest environmental organisations. Greenpeace Australia had its roots in 1974 when Rolf Heimann skippered the 30-foot Tahiti ketch ""La Flor"" from Melbourne to Mururoa via New Zealand, to protest against French atmospheric nuclear testing, but arrived after the final nuclear test for the year. The regional office emerged when an activist group, the Whale and Dolphin Coalition, invited Canadian Bob Hunter, Greenpeace co-founder and its first president, and his wife Bobbi, Greenpeace's first treasurer, to Australia"
"Peter Willcox Peter Willcox is an American sea captain best known for his activism with the environmental organization Greenpeace. He was on board as captain of the ""Rainbow Warrior"" when it was bombed and sunk by French military members in New Zealand in 1985. In 2013, he was aboard the MV ""Arctic Sunrise"" when the Russian military boarded it and arrested him and 30 other activists in what became known as the ""Arctic 30."" He was detained for two months before being released. In 2014, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from ""The Guardian"" for his environmental activism. Willcox was"
"in protest of atmospheric testing in French Polynesia. These included two large national petitions presented to the New Zealand government which led to a joint New Zealand and Australian Government action to take France to the International Court of Justice (1972). In 1972, Greenpeace and an amalgam of New Zealand peace groups managed to delay nuclear tests by several weeks by trespassing with a ship in the testing zone. During the time, the skipper, David McTaggart, was beaten and severely injured by members of the French military. On 1 July 1972, the Canadian ketch ""Vega"", flying the Greenpeace III banner,"
"artist Flume. A track set to a backdrop of image of bleached coral in the Great Barrier Reef was released. Greenpeace Australia Pacific Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GPAP) is the regional office of the global environmental organization Greenpeace. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is one of Australia's largest environmental organisations. Greenpeace Australia had its roots in 1974 when Rolf Heimann skippered the 30-foot Tahiti ketch ""La Flor"" from Melbourne to Mururoa via New Zealand, to protest against French atmospheric nuclear testing, but arrived after the final nuclear test for the year. The regional office emerged when an activist group, the Whale and Dolphin"
"former French intelligence officer, had been the agent who put the bombs on the Rainbow Warrior. Fernando Pereira Fernando Pereira (10 May 1950 – 10 July 1985) was a freelance Dutch photographer, of Portuguese origin, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the ""Rainbow Warrior"", owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985. The bombing of the boat had been designed to make the ship unsalvageable. The first smaller bomb bent the propeller shaft, making repair uneconomic. Pereira stayed inside the boat to get his camera and other pieces of equipment. The second, more"
"she took up a position with Greenpeace. She was to spend the next 20 years working with the organisation in areas that included almost 10 years on various Greenpeace ships. She was a crew member of the original Rainbow Warrior when it was bombed in New Zealand in 1985 by French Intelligence. She was involved in many campaigns covering a wide range of environmental and peace issues. She also worked as assistant to Campaign Director and as Human Resources Manager for Greenpeace International. In addition to working full-time at Greenpeace, O'Sullivan took a Life Long Learning Programme with the Open"
"Fernando Pereira Fernando Pereira (10 May 1950 – 10 July 1985) was a freelance Dutch photographer, of Portuguese origin, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the ""Rainbow Warrior"", owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985. The bombing of the boat had been designed to make the ship unsalvageable. The first smaller bomb bent the propeller shaft, making repair uneconomic. Pereira stayed inside the boat to get his camera and other pieces of equipment. The second, more powerful explosion, designed to sink the boat, caused a huge inrush of seawater that drowned Pereira."
"fund-raiser) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the autumn of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group at 2007 West 4th at Maple in Kitsilano. When the nuclear tests at Amchitka were over, Greenpeace moved its focus to the French atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia. The young organization needed help for their protests and were contacted by David McTaggart, a former businessman living in New Zealand. In 1972 the yacht ""Vega"", a ketch"
"months. First deployed to disrupt the hunt of the Icelandic whaling fleet, the ""Rainbow Warrior"" would quickly become a mainstay of Greenpeace campaigns. Between 1978 and 1985, crew members also engaged in direct action against the ocean-dumping of toxic and radioactive waste, the grey seal hunt in Orkney and nuclear testing in the Pacific. In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for 'Operation Exodus', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades earlier which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health"
"Greenpeace calendar. Upon belatedly realising the identity of the photographer, Greenpeace USA destroyed 14,000 calendars it held in stock but could not prevent the majority from being sold to the public. Alain Mafart Alain Mafart (born in 1951) is a French military officer best known for his part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Mafart was a DGSE agent and deputy commander of the French Navy Training Centre in Corsica. He supported the sabotage team that travelled to New Zealand and bombed and sank the Greenpeace vessel ""Rainbow Warrior"", drowning photographer Fernando Pereira. He was apprehended by New Zealand"
"Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Greenpeace activist, David McTaggart, assumed overall leadership of Greenpeace International. With the contributions in Europe and a grant from the World Wildlife Fund, the Greenpeace ship, ""Rainbow Warrior"", was deployed in 1978 to confront Iceland's whalers in the North Atlantic. In the 1978 campaign, the ""Rainbow Warrior"" spent a month interfering with whaling operations in Icelandic waters without incident. In the 1986 Hvalur sinkings, activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society sank two unoccupied whaling vessels, ""Hvalur 6"" and ""Hvalur 7"", and sabotaged a whale processing station in Hvalfjörður. After splitting from Greenpeace, activist Paul Watson,"