On 4 May 1972, following Irving Stowe's departure from the chairmanship of the Don't Make A Wave Committee, the fledgling environmental group officially changed its name to the "Greenpeace Foundation". Read more
The original ship, a converted British trawler, came to the most violent of ends in 1985 when it was blown up by French special forces in New Zealand, in an attempt to scuttle the Greenpeace campaign against French H-bomb tests in its Pacific colonies. As Greenpeace put it at the time, the ship was sunk but not the rainbow... and so the second Rainbow Warrior came into service. Now it's being retired, and the third vessel in the series has just left port in Germany. Read more