Keywords: Greenpeace ship Sirius off Mallorca in June 1988.jpg The Greenpeace ship Sirius off Mallorca Spain On 9 June 1988 the Sirius interfered with U S Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN-69 during the carrier's second visit of the deployment to Palma de Mallorca The Greenpeace activists repeatedly positioned Zodiac boats between the ship and her anchorage When a Zodiac rammed the carrier's anchor the carrier's crew aimed salt water hoses from her weather deck on the activists to drive them off Greenpeace protested against the visit of a nuclear-powered warship U S Navy photo http //www navysite de/cruisebooks/cvn69-88/057 htm from the http //www navysite de/cruisebooks/cvn69-88/index_006 htm USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN-69 1988 cruise book available at http //navysite de/cruisebooks/index html Navysite de 1988-06-08 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Sirius ship 1951 |