What year did the Greenpeace boat sink?

Answer 1

She was sunk on 10th July 1985 whilst docked in harbour at Auckland, New Zealand, whilst getting ready to monitor French nuclear testing on the Pacific island of Mururoa Atoll. A Portugese photographer, Fernando Pereira, was killed whilst trying to rescue his camera equipment. France later admitted that two of its secret service agents bombed the ship to stop it from it's monitoring work- they were put on trial and sentenced to 10 years in jail for manslaughter, but this was later reduced to two years in exile on a French prison-island. The ship herself was refloated for forensic examination, but deemed irrepairable and was deliberately sunk in shallow water on 12th December 1987 in Matauri Bay near the Cavalli Islands, to serve as a fish sanctuary and as a diver's exploration wreck. Her masts were removed and put on display at the Dargaville Maritime Museum; one of her propellors was also removed and incorporatd into the Rainbow Warrior Memorial on the Matauri Bay headland. Greenpeace's new ship, Rainbow Warrior III, was launched in mid-October 2011.