What was the name of the Greenpeace ship, the former fishing trawler Sir William Hardy, that was sunk in Auckland harbor by French Secret Service agents to prevent it interfering with planned nuclear tests?
Rainbow Warrior (1955) Rainbow Warrior (1955) Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship active in supporting a number of anti-whaling, anti-seal hunting, anti-nuclear testing and anti-nuclear waste dumping campaigns during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The ship was bombed in the Port of Auckland in New Zealand by operatives of the French intelligence service (DGSE) on 10 July 1985, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira. The "Rainbow Warrior" was commissioned by the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) as a trawler called the "Sir William Hardy". It was later purchased by the environmental organization Greenpeace UK. "Sir William Hardy"
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