mathematics

Rainbow Warrior (1957)

Rainbow Warrior (1957) is a mathematics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rainbow Warrior (1957) rather than just read about it. In short: Rainbow Warrior (sometimes informally called Rainbow Warrior II) was a three-masted schooner most notable for service with the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. She was built to replace the original Rainbow Warrior that the French intelligence service (DGSE) bombed in 1985 in the Port of Auckland, New Zealand, which sank the ship and killed photographer Fernando Pereira.

Key takeaways

Rainbow Warrior (1957) belongs to mathematics; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Rainbow Warrior (1957) to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Rainbow Warrior (1957) from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Rainbow Warrior (sometimes informally called Rainbow Warrior II) was a three-masted schooner most notable for service with the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. She was built to replace the original Rainbow Warrior that the French intelligence service (DGSE) bombed in 1985 in the Port of Auckland, New Zealand, which sank the ship and killed photographer Fernando Pereira. The Rainbow Warrior II was built from the hull of the deep sea fishing ship Ross Kashmir (later Grampian Fame), which had been built by Cochrane & Sons of Selby, North Yorkshire and launched in 1957. The ship was originally 44 metres (144 ft) long and powered by steam, but was extended to 55.2 m (181 ft) in 1966. Greenpeace gave the vessel new masts, a gaff rig, a new engine and a number of environmentally low-impact systems to handle waste, heating and hot water. She was officially re-launched in Hamburg on 10 July 1989, the fourth anniversary of the bombing of her predecessor, the original Rainbow Warrior.

History Over the course of her career, Rainbow Warrior was used in activist campaigns such as blockading the Russian whaling fleet, protesting French nuclear weapons testing, and stopping ships with cargos of coal and palm oils, as well as humanitarian activities such as evacuating the inhabitants of Rongelap after the island was contaminated by nuclear testing, and providing aid after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Rainbow Warrior, piloted by skipper Mike Fincken, was docked at the Legazpi City port in Albay on 22 May 2008 for a one-month-long "Quit Coal, Save the Climate" Philippines tour and campaign aimed to educate people on the effects of the use of coal on the environment, specifically on climate change. The tour proposed alternative energy sources such as geothermal and solar energy. Greenpeace damaged the Tubbataha Reef, a world heritage site in the Philippines, with Rainbow Warrior in 2005. Greenpeace was fined $7,000 for damaging almost 100 m2 (1,100 sq ft) of the coral reef. Greenpeace blamed faulty maps provided by the Philippine government for the accident. The BBC quoted Greenpeace official Red Constantino as saying "The chart indicated we were a mile and a half" from the coral reef when the ship ran aground. Greenpeace paid the fine.

Legacy Rainbow Warrior was retired in August 2011 and sold to Friendship, a Bangladesh-based NGO, to serve as a hospital ship, renamed Rongdhonu, Bengali for rainbow. She docked in the port of Chittagong on 29 August to undergo a refitting for that purpose. Rainbow Warrior III was launched in October 2011. The NGO Friendship sold the ship for scrapping in a Bangladesh scrap yard in 2018.

Image gallery

See also Legend of the Rainbow Warriors List of schooners Tubbataha Reef grounding incidents

References

External links

Official Greenpeace page on the Rainbow Warrior New Zealand website on the Rainbow Warrior Australian Greenpeace website on the Rainbow Warrior Archived 10 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Specifications of the Rainbow Warrior (on Greenpeace site)

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rainbow Warrior (1957)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rainbow Warrior (1957) claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In mathematics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rainbow Warrior (1957) before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rainbow Warrior (1957) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rainbow Warrior (1957)

In research: Rainbow Warrior (1957) appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rainbow Warrior (1957) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rainbow Warrior (1957) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1957 ships, Anti–nuclear weapons movement, IMO numbers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rainbow Warrior (1957) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Rainbow Warrior (1957) in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Rainbow Warrior (1957) means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Rainbow Warrior (1957) out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Rainbow Warrior (1957) in simple terms?

Why does Rainbow Warrior (1957) matter?

Because it connects several mathematics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Rainbow Warrior (1957)?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Rainbow Warrior (1957).