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Vancouver, native - Indians
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Eight years ago, Van-
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10, January 31, 1979 - A Supplement to the North Shore News

reenpeace to bo

A full history of organization =

bond. It was from here that

the first Greenpeace ship; -
the 82-foot halibut trawler *

Phyllis Cormack, left with a

crew of 12 to protest the |

American underground nuc-
lear testing at Amchitka
Island in the Aleutian chain
of Alaska.

Since then, Greenpeace
vessels with their colorful
markings and equally: color-
ful crews have become an

‘integral part of Vancouver

life. The group’s direct
action tactics of sailing into
nuclear test zones, getting
between whalers and their
prey and confronting sealers
have made Greenpeace a
hame known to _ literally
hundreds of millions of
people around the world.

Often flamboyant, ~ fre-
quently controversial, Green-
peace has placed an indelible
fingerprint on the ecological
and environmental move-
ments that is all its own.

5

It's enemies have branded
Greenpeace ‘‘arrogant’’,
‘‘media manipulators’’ and
worse. It’s friends say
Greenpeace is heroic,
dedicated and better.

One thing both friends and
foes agree on is that
Greenpeace is almost impos-
sible to ignore and is not
likely to vanish.

Considering the connec-
tions between Vancouver,

- Greenpeace and the water, it

is appropriate that one of the
booths at this year’s Boat
Show will be run and staffed
by the foundation.

Within a month of the
Phyllis Cormack’s departure
for Amchitka in 1971, the
second. Greenpeace ship, an
ex-minesweeper named the
Edgewater Fortune (Green-
peace Too) with a crew of 30
left Vancouver.

Almost twice the size of

at show in sup

the Cormack, Greenpeace
Too’s goal was to replace the

earlier ship which had beef >.

driven back by bad weather. -
Neither ship made it to the
test zone in time for the test,
but the attempts had sparked

the public’s imagination.

_ In 1972, the 38-foot ketch
Vega (Greenpeace III) depar-
ted Vancouver for the South
Pacific with a crew of
volunteers under owner-

skipper David McTaggart to -

protest French atmospheric
atomic tests at Mururoa
Atoll. Greenpeace III's first
attempt to invade the nuclear
zone was cut short when a
French naval vessel rammed
the ship and forced it to head
to New Zealand for repairs.

_ When McTaggart and his
ship returned to the test zone
in 1973, Greenpeace. Il was
boarded by French comman-
dos. McTaggart was beaten
with truncheons and received
permanent damage to one
eye. Five years later, he is
still fighting his way through
the complexities of “the

French legal system in. hi
suit for-damages. .

In 1974 the ketch La Flor
(Greenpeace IV) attempted
to reach Mururoa from
Australia under owner Rolf
Heimann, a German citizen.
Although the ship was driven
back by bad. weather, oppos-
ition to the tests internation-
ally and within France led. to
a stop in the South Pacific
tests.

April 27, 1975, saw 23,000
Vancouverites gather by the
water to give a sendoff: to
Greenpeace V (the - Phyllis
Cormack) and Greenpeace V1_

(the Vega, under its new

owner Jacques Longini). The
target this time was not
nuclear tests, but whales.

This was Greenpeace’s
biggest gamble up to that
time. Where Amchitka and
Mururoa were fixed points
on the map, the goal of this _
trip was a Soviet whaling
fleet working off the coast of
California.

_ CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

THE JAMES BAY, alias Greenpeace VII, ts 2152- foot ex-minesweeper that saw duty in the North Pacific. Assault
crews from the James Bay twice confronted Soviet whalers. [Rex Weyler photo}

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