‘Ross Kashmir’ GY.43 on Doig’s slipway for lengthening and conversion to diesel 1966.

From the original negative. A rare view.

Built as the middle water steam trawler ‘Kashmir’ GY.43 in 1957 by Cochranes of Selby for Derwent trawlers. Renamed ‘Ross Kashmir’ GY.43 in 1962. In 1966 she was lengthened at J. S. Doig’s shipyard in Grimsby and, in 1967, she was given a diesel engine. She sailed to fish from Newfoundland later in 1967. In 1968 she was back at Grimsby and was registered GY.122. In 1982 she went to Aberdeen and was renamed and reregistered ‘Grampian Fame’ A.122.

In 1987 ‘Gramian Fame’ A.122 was sold to the Greenpeace Association, Hamburg (Phoenix Stichting, Amsterdam – Greenpeace Group). There she was fitted out to a three mast fore-and-aft schooner rigged vessel with new diesel engines. In 1989, she was relaunched and renamed ‘Rainbow Warrior (II)’.

In 2011 ‘Rainbow Warrior (II)’ went to Friendship NGO, Dhaka, Bangladesh and was converted to the hospital ship ‘Rongdhonu’ (Bengali for rainbow). Scrapped in 2018 but not in the manner agreed when Greenpeace transferred the ship to Friendship in 2011. The hospital ship had touched the lives of 160,000 people.