Rainbow Warrior

Rainbow Warrior is the name of a series of ships operated by the international environmental organization Greenpeace. The first ship was sunk by the French foreign DGSE) while docked in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, on 10 July 1985.
The current ship using the name was launched in 1989.
The Rainbow Warrior, then captained by Peter Willcox, was sabotaged and sunk just before midnight NZST (1pm BST, 8am EDT) on July 10, 1985 by two explosive devices attached to the hull by operatives of the French intelligence service (DGSE). One of the twelve people on board, photographer Fernando Pereira, returned to the ship after the first explosion to attempt to retrieve his equipment, and was killed when the ship was sunk by the second larger explosion.