Editing Greenpeace (section)

==Ships==
Since Greenpeace was founded, seagoing ships have played a vital role in its campaigns. Greenpeace has chartered additional ships as needed. At least one non-Greenpeace owned ship was used during the organization's 2008–11 campaign to disrupt [[trawling]] in the [[North Sea]] by placing large boulders on the seafloor and then providing local authorities with updated charts of where the boulders were placed.

===In service===
[[File:AS helsinki.jpg|thumb|right|Greenpeace's ship [[MV Arctic Sunrise|MV ''Arctic Sunrise'']] in the harbour of [[Helsinki]].]]

* ''[[Rainbow Warrior (2011)|Rainbow Warrior]]'' is the third vessel to bear the name. Launched in 2011, it is sometimes referred to as ''Rainbow Warrior III''.<ref name="COMM">{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10620814 |title=Greenpeace commissions third Warrior |author=Vidal, John |date=18 January 2010 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=2 October 2011 |archive-date=14 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214135916/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10620814 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[MV Arctic Sunrise|MV ''Arctic Sunrise'']]
* ''SY Witness''

===Previously in service===

====First ''Rainbow Warrior''====
{{main|Rainbow Warrior (1955){{!}}''Rainbow Warrior'' (1955)}}
{{See also|Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior{{!}}Sinking of the ''Rainbow Warrior''}}
In 1978, Greenpeace launched the original ''[[Rainbow Warrior (1955)|Rainbow Warrior]]'', a {{convert|40|m|ft|adj=on}}, former fishing [[Commercial trawler|trawler]] named after the book ''[[Legend of the Rainbow Warriors|Warriors of the Rainbow]]'', which inspired early activist [[Robert Hunter (journalist)|Robert Hunter]] on the first voyage to Amchitka. Greenpeace purchased the ''Rainbow Warrior'' (originally launched as the ''Sir William Hardy'' in 1955) at a cost of £40,000. Volunteers restored and refitted it over a period of four months. First deployed to disrupt the hunt of the [[Iceland]]ic whaling fleet, the ''Rainbow Warrior'' quickly became 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 effects on the locals.<ref name="GREEN">"[http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/mejato.htm "The evacuation of Rongelap] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213074238/http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/mejato.htm |date=13 February 2007 }}</ref>

Later in 1985 the ''Rainbow Warrior'' was to lead a flotilla of protest vessels into the waters surrounding [[Moruroa]] atoll, site of French nuclear testing. The [[Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior|sinking of the ''Rainbow Warrior'']] occurred when the [[French government]] secretly bombed the ship in [[Auckland]] harbour on orders from [[François Mitterrand]] himself. This killed Dutch freelance photographer [[Fernando Pereira]], who thought it was safe to enter the boat to get his photographic material after a first small explosion, but drowned as a result of a second, larger explosion.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rainbow Warrior ringleader heads firm selling arms to US government|date=25 May 2007|access-date=21 January 2010|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/may/25/usnews.france|location=London|first=Suzanne|last=Goldenberg|archive-date=9 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009120648/http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2087877,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The attack was a public relations disaster for France after it was quickly exposed by the New Zealand police. The French Government in 1987 agreed to pay New Zealand compensation of [[New Zealand dollar|NZ$]]13 million and formally apologised for the bombing. The French Government also paid [[French franc|₣]]2.3 million compensation to the family of the photographer. Later, in 2001, when the [[Institute of Cetacean Research]] of Japan called Greenpeace "[[Ecoterrorism|eco-terrorists]]", Gert Leipold, then executive director of Greenpeace, detested the claim, saying "calling non-violent protest terrorism insults those who were injured or killed in the attacks of real terrorists, including Fernando Pereira, killed by State terrorism in the 1985 attack on the ''Rainbow Warrior''".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.greenpeace.org/pressreleases/oceans/2001dec14.html |title=Greenpeace Rejects Terrorism Label, 14 December 2001 |publisher=Archive.greenpeace.org |date=14 December 2001 |access-date=21 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510164356/http://archive.greenpeace.org/pressreleases/oceans/2001dec14.html|archive-date=10 May 2012}}</ref>

====Second ''Rainbow Warrior''====
{{main|Rainbow Warrior (1957){{!}}''Rainbow Warrior'' (1957)}}
[[File:Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior.jpg|thumb|right|Greenpeace's second ''[[Rainbow Warrior (1989)|Rainbow Warrior]]'' ship arrives in [[Bali]] for the [[2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference|2007 UN climate conference]].]]
In 1989 Greenpeace commissioned a replacement Rainbow Warrior vessel, sometimes referred to as ''Rainbow Warrior II''. It retired from service on 16 August 2011, to be replaced by the third generation vessel. In 2005 the ''Rainbow Warrior II'' ran aground on and damaged the [[Tubbataha Reef]] in the Philippines while inspecting the reef for [[coral bleaching]]. Greenpeace was fined [[United States dollar|US$]]7,000 for damaging the reef and agreed to pay the fine saying they felt responsible for the damage, although Greenpeace stated that the Philippines government had given it outdated charts. The park manager of Tubbataha appreciated the quick action Greenpeace took to assess the damage to the reef.<ref>[[BBC News]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4395572.stm Greenpeace fined for reef damage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508081518/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4395572.stm |date=8 May 2009 }}. 1 November 2005.</ref>

====Others====
* [[MV Sirius|MV ''Sirius'']]
* [[MV Solo|MV ''Solo'']]
* [[MV Greenpeace|MV ''Greenpeace'']]
* [[MV Gondwana|MV ''Gondwana'']]
* [[:de:Beluga (Schiff)|MV ''Beluga'']] (in German)
* [[MV Esperanza|MV ''Esperanza'']]