Peace ship docks in Providence

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The “peace ship” Golden Rule docked in India Point Park in Providence Sunday.

The ship is part of a project by the Veterans for Peace in opposition to nuclear weapons and war.

It is currently journeying the “Great Loop” around the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, and Great Lakes.

The ship will be docked at the Community Boating Center until Tuesday, when it will sail for Bristol, Rhode Island.

“In 1958 an intrepid crew of Quakers sailed the small ship ‘Golden Rule’ to the South Pacific to try to block massive nuclear weapons tests the U.S.A. was planning there,” Veterans for Peace said. “They were arrested in Honolulu, but they created a lasting legacy. Now a new crew from Veterans for Peace is using the very same ship to highlight threats posed by these weapons and to promote the exciting new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.”