| 61 Peace Monuments
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NB: This web page does not yet contain "boat people" monuments in Australia, Indonesia, and perhaps other countries.
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E |  1311-1798 - Bucentaur, Venice (Italy). "State barge of the doges of Venice. "Used every year on Ascension Day up to 1798 to take the doge out to the Adriatic Sea to perform the 'Marriage of the Sea' - a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the sea every year on the 'Festa della Sensa' (Ascension Day)...
Venetian scholars agree that four major barges were built... The bucentaur of 1311 is regarded as the first significant one... The historian Marino Sanuto the Younger described the ship as bearing a sculpture of Justice... The earliest known image of a bucentaur appeared in Jacopo de' Barbari's monumental woodcut Pianta di Venezia (Map of Venice) which was published in 1500. This work [right image] pictured a bucentaur afloat in the Arsenale without oars or decoration save for a large wooden sculpture of Justice in the bow...
The last & most magnificent of the historic bucentaurs was [completed in 1729]... The doge's throne was in the stern, and the prow [model in left image] bore the traditional figurehead representing Justice with sword & scales... In February 2008, the Fondazione Bucintoro announced a €20 million project to rebuild the 1729 bucentaur. Work started on 15 March 2008 at the Arsenale shipyard & naval dock."
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P |  1598 - Figurehead of "De Liefde / Love," Imperial Museum, Tokyo (Japan). Depicts Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
[1466-1536]. Originally named "Erasmus," this was first Dutch ship ever to reach Japan but was lost in a storm in 1600. The figurehead was saved in a temple and identified in 1926. /// Erasmus was a humanist, priest & theologian. Sometimes called the "Inventor of peace." Famous for writing "Dulce Bellus Inexpertis" in 1517. 
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Ship of the Line
|  1794-1797 - The French ship Droits de l'Homme was launched on May 29, 1794, & sunk by the Royal Navy on January 13, 1797. 
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| 1840 - near Plozévet (France). "This is a large menhir inscribed in 1840 to commemorate the shipwreck of the 'Droits de l'Homme' in 1797 with the loss of around 600 lives.
The stone used was once a real menhir moved to here from elsewhere. It's at the edge of a car park besides this phenomenal beach, with the surf pounding in all around, creating its own fog!"
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About 1807 - Newton's grave & Stained glass window depicting the 'Greyhound,' Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (England).
One of a series of stained glass windows depicting the ship "Greyhound." John Newton [1725-1807], a one time slaver, underwent religious conversion & conversion to the anti-slavery cause. His near shipwreck on the 'Greyhound' which found refuge in Londonderry (Northern Ireland) in 1748 played a part in this process. /// ". The Vicarage was occupied by John Newton as Curate from 1764 until 1780, when he moved to London, becoming Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth. A dormer window belongs to the study where he wrote ‘Amazing Grace.’ The church contains Newton's pulpit & fine stained glass windows commemorating William Cowper [1731-1800] & Newton. In the churchyard are the graves of Newton & his wife Mary, with an interesting inscription describing himself as 'once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa...'" When was the window created?
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T |   1826 - "The Boatload of Knowledge," Ohio River (USA). In 1817, William Maclure [1763-1840] became president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), a post he held for the next 22 years. The next few years, Maclure traveled and resided in France, Italy, Paris, Switzerland & Spain. In 1824, he visited Robert Owen's cotton mill at New Lanark (Scotland). In July, 1825, he arrived in Philadelphia with Madame Fretageot's nephews. The following November, he met Robert Owen in Philadelphia & decided to join Owen's venture to Harmonie, recently purchased by Owen from Harmonist leader George Rapp & renamed New Harmony. In January 1826, the keelboat "Philanthropist" (afterwards known as "The Boatload of Knowledge") journeyed down the Ohio River to Mount Vernon, Indiana. From there the well established scientists & educators made their way to New Harmony [on the Wabash River]. Among them were Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, Thomas Say, Maclure & Pestalozzian educators Marie Duclos Fretageot and William S. Phiquepal d'Arusmont. Soon to join them in New Harmony were Joseph Neef & Gerard Troost. (The journey and settling are described by Donald E. Pitzer in "William Maclure's Boatload of Knowledge: Science and Education into the Midwest," Indiana Magazine of History 94 (1998) 110-135.)
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Gunboat Melik,
Nile riverbank, Khartoum (Sudan). "An unlikely symbol of Anglo-Sudanese co-operation, the Melik was a Victorian weapon of high technology & fearsome power, intended to terrorise the Sudanese rebels & to kill as many as possible. It was built in Chiswick (England) in 1896, then shipped in pieces to Egypt, taken by rail across the Nubian Desert & reassembled at Abadieh on the Nile. From there it led a flotilla of heavily armed gunboats, a vital element in Kitchener's reconquest of Khartoum in 1898... Today the gunboat sits in a bed of dried mud & sand in a grove of mahogany trees, its decks tipped at an angle, the roof collapsing."
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"On the outbreak of the First World War in Europe [in 1914], Henry Ford, the wealthy American businessman, soon made it clear he opposed the war and supported the decision of the Woman's Peace Party (WPP) to organize a peace conference in Holland. After the conference Ford was contacted by America's three [sic] leading anti-war campaigners, Jane Addams [1860-1935], Rosika Schwimmer [1877-1948], Oswald Garrison Villard [1872-1949], and Paul Kellogg [1879-1958]. They suggested that Ford should sponsor an international conference in Stockholm to discuss ways that the conflict could be brought to an end.
Ford came up with the idea of sending a boat of pacifists to Europe to see if they could negotiate an agreement that would end the war. He chartered the ship Oskar II, and it sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey on 4th December, 1915. The Ford Peace Ship reached Stockholm in January, 1916, and a conference was organized with representatives from Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden and the USA. However, unable to persuade representatives from the warring nations to take part, the conference was unable to negotiate an Armistice." (Unitarian Jenkin Lloyd Jones [1843-1918] sailed on the ship.)
Upper images show Henry Ford [1863-1947] at the rail of the ship and Lola Maverick Lloyd [1875-1944] on board.
Bottom image is "Henry Ford's Peace Ship," a painting by Mary McCleary, Regent's Professor of Art Emeritus, Stephen F. Austin State University.
Click here for paper about the Peace Ship.
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T |  1917 - "Peace," Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA).
Steam powered prop towboat built by and for Dravo Contracting Co. The site of the picture is Pittsburgh, but the date and photographer are unknown. Courtesy Boat Photo Museum. Named with reference to World War I?
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T | 1923 - "Erasmus," in the "Want," near the Oranjelaan, Dordrecht, South Holland (Netherlands) "Built in 1923 as the "W.F.van der Wyck" for service between Enkhuizen and Stavoren. In 1941 she was requisitioned by the Germans as "Wilkommen," and in 1944 renamed "Regulus." She was acquired by Spido in 1955 and named "Erasmus." She was out of service in 1973, sold in 1974, and in 1976 became the 'Hollands Glorie" in Dordrecht. She remains as a stationary vessel in Dordrecht, with her engines removed."
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anarchist & pacifist Ernst Friedrich [1894-1967], whose 1924 picture book "Krieg dem Kriege! / War against War!" documented the horrors of WW-I (lower left image). In 1925, Friedrich opened the Anti-Kriegs-Museum (AKM) / Anti-War Museum on Parochialstrasse, Berlin. In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers (SA) destroyed the AKM and seized the "Pax Vobiscum." Friedrich was arrested, then emigrated to Belgium & France. In 1982 (15 years after the death of its founder), AKM was reopened by his grandson Tommy Spree (sic); its current address is Brusseler Strasse 21, Berlin. Upper image of "Pax Vobiscum" courtesy of Peter Nias who photographed it from Friedrich's 1935 book, "Von Friedens - Museum zum Hitler - Kaserne / From Peace Museum to Hitler Barracks" (lower right image)
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 May 29, 1935 - Statute of "La Paix / Peace," "Garden of Normandie," Pinelawn Memorial Park (aka Long Island National Cemetery), Framingdale, Long Island, New York (USA). "Thirteen feet tall gilded statue of a toga-clad woman, one arm raised & offering an olive branch, by Louis Dejean [1872-1954]. [Originally] dominated the center of the [305-foot long] first class dining room of the French liner Normandie [1935-1942]" -- which sank in New York City during World War II. "The sculpture survived & was acquired [when?] by the cemetery after being discovered dismantled in a Brooklyn churchyard." (Medallions from two doors of the Normandie are still in use aby Our Lady of Lebanon Marionite Cathedral in Boooklyn, NY.)
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Armillary Sphere
|  August 1939 - "Armillary Sphere," Ariana Park, Palais des Nations / Palace of Nations, Geneva (Switzerland). 410 cm in diameter. Weighs some 5,800 kg. Also called Celestial Sphere. By Paul Manship [1885-1966]. Presented by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in memory of the founder of the League of Nations.
 
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June 1, 1950 - "Aero Memorial World War I 1917-18," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). By Paul Manship [1885-1966]. "Proposed during WW-I by the Aero Club of Pennsylvania. Commissioned by Fairmount Park Art Association."
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A 52 metre-high slab of concrete carved into the shape of the prow of a ship. Side facing away from the river has a carved sword stretching the full height of the monument. Conceived by Portuguese artists, architect Cottinelli Telmo and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida [1898-1975], as a temporary beacon of the Exposição do Mundo Português / Portuguese World Fair in 1940."
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1992 - Portuguese Navigators Monument, Brenton Point, Newport, Rhode Island (USA).
"Oceanfront monument celebrating world navigators." "Representative of an armillary sphere, an ancient navigational instrument used by the explorers and still displayed today on the flag of Portugal." Also "a sphere representing the three fourths of the world that the Portuguese navigators discovered."
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Japanese Instrument of Surender, thus ending World War II (1939-1945).
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July 3, 1952 - "Expressions of Freedom," First Class Dining Room, SS United States. Four stylized figures (12x16 feet) representing the 'Four Freedoms' by sculptress Gwen Lux [1908-1987]" (right image). /// Out of service since 1969, the SS United States is now tied to a pier in Philadelphia, Pennsyvania, awaiting possible restoration as a hotel and/or museum. Many of the ship's fittings were auctioned on October 14, 1984. According to the New York Times, "William D. Wilkinson, director of the Mariners' Museum of Newport News, Virginia, was delighted with his purchases of ''Expressions of Freedom'' by Gwen Lux, the aluminum sculpture from the main dining room, & the buffet that stood beneath it, for a total of $1,525."
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NB: Click here for Wikipedia's summary of the "Phoenix," the "Golden Rule," & the Committee for Non-Violent Action (CNVA).
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NB: Click here for comments & images received from Jessica Reynolds Shaver Renshaw after the foregoing was uploaded.
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|  1970 - Lusitania Peace Memorial, Casement Square, Cobh (Ireland).
"Irish American sculptor Jerome Connor [1874-1943] was commissioned by Bert Hubbard to sculpt a memorial to the tragedy [of May 7, 1915]... The names of the victims have yet to be inscribed.
With the one hundred year anniversary coming up in 2015 maybe the people of Cobh should be getting a move on to have the monument finished exactly as it was meant to be."
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"Golden Rule," Eureka, California (USA). "The Golden Rule subsequently sank in Humboldt Bay, California. But in 2010 it was rescued by Leroy Zerlang. A crew led by Chuck DeWitt of Veterans for Peace spent five years restoring her to seaworthiness, and the Golden Rule was relaunched on June 20, 2015." /// Hit by police boat in Portland, Oregon, on June 9, 2016. /// Now out of water and for sale by Leon Zerlang (humtug@gmail.com). Asking price is $9,500. Email Jan. 19, 2010 from Wendy E. Chmielewski, PhD, George Cooley Curator,
Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore. Pennsylvania (USA): "The sailing ship that in 1958 [Quakers] Albert
Bigelow [1906-1993], James Peck [1914-1993], George Willoughby [1914-2010] (who just passed away two weeks
ago), attempted to sail into the atomic testing grounds near the Marshall
Islands. The ship has been repossessed by Leon Zerlang, the ship yard
owner (from the bankrupt actual owner). Leon is aware of the ship's
history and would like to help save The Golden Rule, but needs ideas and
help on what to do to save this ship. Several years ago I received an
almost identical email from another ship owner trying to save The Phoenix (qv),
a sailing ship with a similar history. I don't know the fate of The
Phoenix. It would be a shame to lose still another piece of peace movement
history. Ideally something like The Golden Rule, a beautiful sailing ship,
should be preserved by the Smithsonian, but I don't know that they have any
interest in it." Right image shows Earle Reynolds [1910-1998], his second wife Akie Nagami, Phil Drath, Betty Boardman, Bob Eaton, Horace Champhy, and Ivan Massar embarking from Misaki, Kanagawa (Japan) on February 16, 1967, en route to North Vietnam with medical supplies. "In 1959, Bigelow published a book, "Voyage of the Golden Rule: An Experiment with Truth," which documented his journey. The story would go on to inspire fellow Quaker Marie Bohlen to suggest the use of a similar tactic to members of the Vancouver-based Don't Make a Wave Committee (later to become Greenpeace) in 1970."
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NB: The following account is from the autobiography of Robert Swann [1918-2003]:
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N | 1962 - "Everyman I," Sausalito, California (USA). "In 1962 the US announced another round of nuclear tests in the Pacific. We decided to build a 30-foot trimaran sailboat designed by Arthur Piver [1910-1968] and sail it into the testing zone. The US Attorney in San Francisco decided to try to stop us by issuing a 'cease and desist' order. The "Everyman" sailed serenely out under the Bay Bridge [sic] and into ocean waters with a crew of three. Following the boat was a Coast Guard cutter with a US Marshall. Hovering above it all were several helicopters, also with reporters and photographers. All of this was being carried on local radio and TV news so that practically everyone in the San Francisco area was aware of the story. Eventually, with the help of the Coast Guard, he managed to arrest and handcuff the crew and return them to San Francisco. I was also arrested and spent the night in the San Francisco jail [sic] along with the sailors. Meanwhile, the word had gone out. Hundreds of supporters arrived at the Federal courthouse where we were being held. They filled the entire building before closing time, refusing to leave when ordered to do so. We turned our night in jail into a party. Joan Baez lead the singing and we danced all night long. The next day the Feds dropped the case against me but charged the three sailors, who spent a couple of months in jail." (Image shows Arthur Piver's 30-foot "Nimble" built in 1969 in the UK. Piver left Sausalito alone in his 36-foot trimaran on March 17, 1968, en route to San Diego and was never seen again.)
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Sloop
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 May 17, 1969 - Sloop "Clearwater," Hudson River, New York (USA). 106 feet/32 meters overall. Built in Harvey Gamage Shipyard, South Bristol, Maine, for Pete Seeger [1919-2014]. "Starting in the 1970's, used to force a clean-up of PCB contamination of the Hudson River caused by industrial manufacturing by General Electric & other companies on the river's edge. Other specific Hudson watershed issues with which Clearwater is concerned are development pressures in the southern half of the Hudson Valley, pesticide runoff, the Manhattan west side waterfront, Indian Point nuclear reactors & New York/New Jersey Harbor dredge spoil disposal. Clearwater has gained worldwide recognition for its leadership in helping to pass landmark environmental laws, both state & federal, including the Clean Water Act." /// Image shows the Clearwater sailing south, past Manhattan's Grant's Tomb & Riverside Church.
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/// "Only remnant of the 116 ships of all shapes & sizes that tried to run the British blockade in order to bring well over 100,000 Jewish refugees to the shores of Mandatory Palestine. The ship, retired from the Israeli navy, was scheduled to be sold for scrap in 1962 when Yosef Almog, a senior naval officer, realized that the "Af-Al-Pi-Chen" was nearly all that was left of a heroic episode in the history of the State of Israel.
The hulk was hauled up on shore, cut into sections and reassembled at the foot of Mount Carmel – a major engineering feat in the 1960's. By 1969, the "Af-Al-Pi-Chen" had become part of a museum under Almog’s directorship, commemorating the protracted 'battle of wills' waged with British authorities over the right to Jewish immigration. Part of the ship has been refitted with 50 cm. wide berths squeezed into the cramped belly of the ship; other parts of the ship, and the adjacent pavilion, display memorabilia from the period - ship models, historic photos, newspaper accounts and mementos from other 'illegal" immigrant ships.'
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"Irish American sculptor Jerome Connor [1874-1943] was commissioned by Bert Hubbard to sculpt a memorial to the tragedy [of May 7, 1915]... The names of the victims have yet to be inscribed.
With the one hundred year anniversary coming up in 2015 maybe the people of Cobh should be getting a move on to have the monument finished exactly as it was meant to be." /// "In 1926 [Connor] was contacted by Roycroft and asked to design & cast a statue of Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915] who, with his wife Alice, had died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. It was unveiled in 1930 and today it stands on the lawn of East Aurora's Middle School across the street from the Roycroft Chapel building.
While working on the Hubbard statue, Connor received a commission to create a memorial for all the Lusitania victims. It was to be erected in Cobh, where many of the victims were buried. The project was initiated by the New York Memorial Committee, headed by William H. Vanderbilt whose father Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, like Elbert & Alice Hubbard, perished on the Lusitania. Connor died before the Lusitania memorial was completed & based on Connor's design its installation fell to another Irish artist..."
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At 19:33 the ship sank... Now the plaque and speaker are all that remain from the Voice of Peace."
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A light, airy and spacious boat on three levels, she offers superb views of the attractions and skyline of London. With a total capacity of 340, she is one of the largest boats on the Thames."
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S | 1978 - Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace, Amsterdam (Netherlands). A series of three ships owned by the environmentalist organization Greenpeace. The first "sailed to Rongelap Atoll to help relocate some of the people away from the nuclear waste and was sunk by operatives of the French intelligence service (DGSE)." The second is a motor assisted schooner acquired by Greenpeace in 1989 and is currently in service with the organisation.
The third will be a purpose-designed Greenpeace vessel that is to be completed in 2010.
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Barco de la Paz / Peace Ship. Voyage to Nicaragua during the height of the war against the Sandinistas that was waged by Washington and the Contras. Four Nobel Prize winners travel with a load of material aid to the besieged Central American country: Betty Williams [b.1943], Adolfo Perez Esquivel [b.1931],
George Wald [1906-1997], and Linus Pauling [1901-1994].
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|  1986 - Masts of the Rainbow Warrior, Dargaville, North Island (New Zealand). "The masts of the Rainbow Warrior were first 'stepped' (ceremoniously raised) at Dargaville Museum in 1986, commemorating the bombing of Greenpeace’s anti-nuclear protest flagship in Auckland Harbor on July 10, 1985. The ship was preparing to depart from Auckland to protest French nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia. A Greenpeace photographer was killed in the blast, and the French government eventually admitted responsibility for the bombing."
/// This is "Monday's Monument" #115. /// See other Rainbow Warrior memorials in Auckland & Matauri Bay.
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  1988 - "Spirit of Haida Gwaii," First Peoples Hall, Canadian Museum of History, Hall, Quebec (Canada). Plaster original by Bill Reid. "Represents the Aboriginal heritage of the Haida Gwaii region (formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia... The first bronze casting was entitled 'The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, the Black Canoe' & is now displayed outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC (USA). The second bronze casting, entitled 'The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, the Jade Canoe,' is at the International Terminal at Vancouver International Airport."
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Obtaining the local materials by sea was fraught with difficulties as this is the Pacific Ocean & storms were prevalent that year. Despite giving time for the project, funding was hard to come by. However, local support was generous. Reparation funds from the French government paid the final bills."
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| 1991 - Monument to the 'Struma' and 'Mefkura,' Ashdod (Israel). Text of marker: "This monument commemorates the two illegal immigrant ships that the British refused to allow to enter the country. The 'Struma' was sunk in the Black Sea in February 1942 with 770 illegal immigrants from Romania on board. Only one of the passengers survived. The 'Mafkura' sailed from the Romanian port of Constanze in August, 1944. During its passage it was damaged by gunfire from an unidentified vessel - evidently a German submarine - and quickly sank. Of the 310 passengers on board, only 5 survived. The monument pays tribute to the entire illegal immigration operation to Palestine, and to the bravery of these illegal immigrants, many of whom paid with their lives for the desire to reach the Holy Land." 
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 | 1996 - Vakantieschip J. Henry Dunant / Holiday ship J. Henry Dunant, The Hague? (Netherlands). Most recent of a series of ships operated by Nederlandse Rode Kruis / Dutch Red Cross for passengers requiring special care.
Google translation: "Welcome aboard ! In the J. Henry Dunant, you can enjoy a long week of a carefree holiday . You see the landscape pass before you and enjoy meanwhile the comfort and luxury of a cruise ship really .
Visit to the charming harbor towns.
Twice a week puts the J. Henry Dunant early afternoon in one of the port towns we visit. You can go shopping, on a terrace or visit a museum. Delicious. A volunteer will accompany you , but you can also alone or with a companion on the go.
Luxury facilities on board.
Do not want to go out ? For example, you can sunbathe on the deck or your hairstyle to take in hand at the hair salon. You can also take a look at the gift shop. There you will find solid fun gifts for those at home."
Fine dining.
Every evening our chefs cater for a full dinner and once a week we spoil you with a festive dinner. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, dinner followed by an evening entertainment program. The volunteers and our crew ensure that your every need." /// J. Henry Dunant [1828-1910] was founder of the Red Cross & receipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901). 
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|  September 21, 1997 - Pax-Stien / "Pax" (Peace Memorial), near Lindesnes, Vest-Agder (Norway). At southernmost point of the Norwegian mainland. "On 21st October 1942, M/S Palatea, a German ship carrying prisoners of war, was torpedoed off Lindesnes lighthouse. 915 Russian prisoners & 71 Germans perished." /// "Unveiled by King Harald V of Norway, the memorial monument was designed by sculptor Arne Vinje Gunnerud [1930-2007]. It consists of a Common Buzzard in bronze with unfolded wings, on a platform of natural rock. A 986-strong choir, one singer for every life lost on the ship, sang at the unveiling of the monument." /// "The statue is of 'Russian bird' of the kind woodcut by so many russian prisoners-of-war during the war [sic]." 
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La Amistad (Spanish for "Friendship") was a ship taken over in July 1839 by African captives being transported from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba. The Africans & the ship were later captured off Long Island by the US Revenue Cutter Service, La Amistad became a symbol in the movement to abolish slavery, and a US Supreme Court case over the status of the Africans took place in 1841, as importation of slaves into the US had been prohibited since 1808." "In 1998-2000, Mystic Seaport built a recreation christened "Freedom Schooner Amistad." The ship's mission is to educate the public on the history of slavery, discrimination, and civil rights. Her homeport is New Haven, where the Amistad trial took place. She also travels to other port cities for educational opportunities."
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Vietnamese Boat People Monument, Batam Island (Indonesia). Near Singapore.
"Leaders of the Vietnamese community in Melbourne [Australia] have expressed anger & disbelief that a monument erected in March on an Indonesian island once home to hundreds of Vietnamese refugees has been removed [around May] at the request of the Vietnamese Government. Another monument, erected on the Malaysian island of Bidong, is under threat after a similar request to local authorities.
The monuments were erected as a symbol of the refugees' gratitude to their rescuers in the two countries. The Vietnamese community in Melbourne said the monument on Bidong 'honours the humanity and the compassion of the Malaysian people towards their fellow human beings in time of need.'
The monuments were erected at the site of the former Galang refugee camp on the Indonesian island of Batam, near Singapore, and at Bidong, off the Malaysian mainland, after a visit in March by 142 former Vietnamese refugees to pay tribute to the thousands who died trying to escape the Communists in the 1970s and '80s.
The Jakarta Post said last week the monument was dismantled at the request of Vietnam on the grounds it was offensive.
The engraving on the Bidong monument reads: 'In commemoration of the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people who perished on the way to freedom (1975-1996). Though they died of hunger or thirst, of being raped, of exhaustion or of any other cause, we pray that they may now enjoy lasting peace. Their sacrifices will not be forgotten.'"
The president of the Victorian chapter of the Vietnamese Community in Australia, Hung Chau, has written to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono requesting that plans for another monument on Galang proceed." /// Click here for more info.  
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The second vessel, Phoenix, which had been very active in the anti-nuclear movement in New Zealand, was also ordered to be destroyed. The New Zealand state, Auckland Regional Council, Environment Waikato and the Environment Court have all pursued a political policy of total destruction of these two anti-nuclear peace ships.
It is only a matter of time before nuclear ships are allowed back into New Zealand waters. I'm now dedicated to build a new anti-nuclear peace ship of the same size as my previous vessel Zeus to defend New Zealand's nuclear-free zone when the policy changes to allow nuclear ship visits again.
I remain defiant and in defence of a nuclear-free zone I am building a new ship, Peace Ship Zeus
My research indicates that nine million dollars of New Zealand Superannuation has been invested in Northrop Gruman who build the Nimitz-class and future Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
-- Gary "Zeus" Moulton, March 2008."
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|  December 2005 - Cuban Chugs Exhibit, Key West Botanical Garden, 5210 College Road, Key West, Florida (USA). "Since Fidel Castro’s Revolution succeeded in 1959, small boats have become a vehicle of escape for
hundreds of thousands of Cubans seeking freedom from the repressive communist government. Only 90
miles of sea separate the island from Florida Keys, and passing over the Straits of Florida has remained
one of the main passageways to freedom up to to this day.
Today, the botanical garden has a display of eleven of these rafts that have been found &
retrieved over the years." /// "Often these primitive vessels, called "chugs," are abandoned offshore, destroyed by the US Coast Guard for navigational safety reasons or left on remote beaches after landing. The Marquesa Keys, about 22 miles west of Key West, harbor such remote beaches. It was there, in December 2005, that Key West resident Dink Bruce happened upon 14 migrants & their handmade vessel.
That day launched a photographic and historical journey for Bruce, who began documenting the handmade vessels... The "Chugs of Cuba" display includes a few of the actual boats used by Cubans during the crossings. Many were salvaged by local tow company owner Ricky Arnold, who has worked with Bruce & the garden to display the primitive vessels next to the garden's nature chapel." /// "This boat [in the image] was found on Boca Grande, about ten miles west of Key West. Notice the American flag painted on the
righthand side."
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|   2006 - Peace Garden, Charlton House, Charlton Road, London (England). "Just south of Greenwich. A walled garden opened as a 'Peace Garden' in support of two major programs supported by Amnesty International – the campaign to stop violence against women & to control arms. Has a central sculpture & offers a quiet place for contemplation. Designed by Andrew Fisher-Tomlin. Contains a sculpture by Margaret Higginson, titled 'Portage' & a Japanese Peace pole donated from an artist in Tokyo.
Portage statue [depicts] a woman carrying a boat above her head, and is designed to portray the strength & spirit of women worldwide as it portrays how indigenous women travelled between the lakes of Canada. The peace pole has the quote 'May Peace Prevail on Earth' in both English & Japanese." /// FYI: This "house was built between 1607 & 1612 for Sir Adam Newton, Dean of Durham & tutor to Prince Henry Frederick Stuart, heir to the throne, and son of King James I (VI in Scotland)." /// Info courtesy of Peter van den Dungen.  
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|  December 22, 2008 - "Peace Aak", Port of Hubei, China. Type 920 Hospital Ship, a class of hospital ship in the People's Liberation Army Navy of the Peoples' Republic of China. "Dai san dao hao" is the navy name, "Peace Ark" is the name in peacetime... China is one of a few nations with naval floating hospitals. The Chinese rationale for the ship was to give China a platform to provide a better means to providing quicker humanitarian response to disasters around the world, but others contend it also allows China to extend the navy's blue water capabilities... Has 500 beds, 35 ICUs, 12 operating theatres & the capacity to accommodate 60 major surgeries a day – about as many as a large hospital in Beijing. Is unarmed and painted white with red crosses to conform to the Geneva Convention criteria for a civilian hospital ship; firing upon it is potentially a war crime under international law."
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| April 25, 2009 -
Vietnamese Boat People Monument, Westminster, Orange County, California (USA). Memorializes the tens of thousands who died in the high seas as they tried to escape communist Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. Built by Cam Ai Tran & Hap Tu Thai who escaped from Vietnam in 1979 by a boat which capcized, forcing them to swim ashore near Hai Nam Island in the South China Sea.
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Photo: The Institute of Cetacean Research/Handout.
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| December 2, 2012 -
Memorial Statue of Vietnamese Boat People, Brisbane, Queensland (Australia). Inscribed: "In memory.
Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese boat people perished at sea on their journeys seeking freedom from 1975 - 1995. In Gratitude. In the hour of our greatest need - you were there.
We thank you Australia. 'There is no greater sorrow than the loss of one`s native land.' Euripedes - Medea."
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| 2013 - Vietnamese Boat People Monument of Gratitude, Wade Street Reserve,
corner of Brisbane & William Streets, Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia (Australia).
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Sunken Sailboat
| July 9, 2016 -
Phoenix of Hiroshima, North Mokelumne River, near Isleton, Sacramento County, California (USA). Sailboat sunk in 2010. Found on July 9, 2016, by boat from Sacramento County Sherriff's Department (upper right image) using sonar (upper left image). The boat was constructed near Hiroshima (Japan) by American Quaker Earle Reynonds [1910-1998] in 1954. He & his family used it to sail around the world, then they deliberately sailed into the American nuclear testing zone in the Pacific Ocean in 1958 to protest nuclear weapons. The Reynolds family now hopes to raise the historic 62-year old boat, then transport it to a boatyard in Port Townsend, Washington, for restoration (like the Golden Rule). Information & first 3 images courtesy of Earle's daughter Jessica Reynolds Renshaw (lower left image). Lower right image is screen shot from Google Earth (Street View as of June 2007) at or very near the location of the sinking in 2000.
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1994 - Schulschiff / Training Ship, Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium 'Bertha von Suttner' (GRG 21), anchored in the Danube River, Vienna (Austria). "Two boats with 36 classrooms and administrative offices. The gym is located on a third float." Named for Baroness Bertha von Suttner [1843-1914] who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. The Donauturm / Danube Tower & Vienna International City (VIC) are visible in the backround of the image.
May 31, 2010 - MV Mavi Marmara. Owned by the Islamic charity Insani Yardim Vakfi / Foundation for Human Rights & Freedom & Humanitarian Relief (IHH). Israeli commandos attacked the Turkish ship in international waters with about 600 peace activsts on board as it and five other vessels were en route to Gaza with 10,000 tons of construction materials and humanitrian supplies. Israel has blockaded Gaza since 2007.
