A toast as the Phyllis Cormack (also called "Greenpeace") leaves Vancouver. Clockwise from left: Thurston, Metcalfe, Darnell, Cummings, Hunter, Bohlen, Moore, Simmons.
This is a photographic record by Robert Keziere of the very first Greenpeace voyage, which departed Vancouver on the 15th September 1971, aiming to halt nuclear tests in Amchitka Island by sailing into the restricted area. Crew on-board the ship, are the pioneers of the green movement who formed the original group that became Greenpeace.