PROTEST SHIP
Six Offer To Sail Six men had volunteered to sail a protest ship to the Pacific area where the French nuclear tests would be held, said the secretary of the Christchurch branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Mrs R. Plumridge) last evening.
The offers had been made by telephone since Friday evening, she said. All the men had said they had sailing experience, but she would not have their names and occupations until they were interviewed this week. “I never thought for a moment we would get such a response,” she said. “I would have been happy if we had had one volunteer. We are very pleased that six people feel sufficiently strongly to be prepared to risk their lives on tills project.” “It does appear that everybody who has volunteered is genuinely interested in going not merely for an adventure but to make a serious protest.”
Several donations had been made towards the cost of the protest ship and other project expenses, Mrs Plumridge said. The ship, a 37-foot ketch, was priced at £4500.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31090, 20 June 1966, Page 1
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178PROTEST SHIP Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31090, 20 June 1966, Page 1
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