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Largest in this registry
#67,675
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#38,105
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 5 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Rainbow Warrior (sometimes Rainbow Warrior III) is a purpose-built motor-assisted sailing yacht owned and operated by Greenpeace and intended for use in their activities such as environmental protests and scientific excursions. She was christened on October 14, 2011, replacing Rainbow Warrior II after further upgrades and maintenance to the older ship had been shown to be impractical.
The vessel is the first Rainbow Warrior that was not converted from another vessel. Her hull was constructed in Poland and she was fitted out in Germany. She has state-of-the-art facilities including advanced telecommunication equipment, specialised scientific equipment, and a helicopter landing pad. The ship is also designed to be one of the "greenest" ships afloat and, to showcase this quality, it runs primarily using wind power, with a 55 metres (180 ft) mast system which carries 1255 m2 (13,500 sq. ft.) of sail. The ship also has Volvo Penta D65A MT 1850 HP diesel-electric engine and carries up to 110,000 litres (25,000 imp. gal.; 30,000 US gal.) diesel fuel. The ship can store up to 59 m3 (77 cu. yd.) of greywater and blackwater, avoiding the need for disposal at sea. All materials, from the paintwork to the insulation, were chosen with a view to sustainability, and each component has been supplied with transparent ethical sourcing.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 838 gross tons, Rainbow Warrior III is the 67,675th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 7.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 38,105th by tonnage — larger than 23% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which Rainbow Warrior III is the 985th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 839 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Netherlands flag, of which 415 are larger by tonnage.
Rainbow Warrior III was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 2,555th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 53 vessels to Fassmer, with a median tonnage of 279 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 57.9 m overall, Rainbow Warrior III is 57.1 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 11.3 m and a draft of 5.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9575383 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2009 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.
Its IMO number, 9575383, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 7×5 + 5×4 + 3×3 + 8×2 = 173 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Hegemann III | 1977 | 839 |
| Vortex | 2010 | 839 |
| «Extramar-Oeste» | 1977 | 839 |
| Rainbow Warrior III (this ship) | 2011 | 838 |
| M-0200 Ivan Shankov | 1996 | 837 |
| Cap Sainte Anne | 1976 | 837 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Rainbow Warrior (2011) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Brian Fitzgerald Lowflyingowl at en.wikipedia, reused under CC BY 2.0.
| Heng Chang |
| 1975 |
| 837 |