GP ship impounded during anti-Trident action

23 Feb­ru­ary: Green­peace ship the Arc­tic Sun­rise impound­ed dur­ing float­ing block­ade of Faslane naval base. Snip­pets below from GP press releas­es.

This morn­ing the Green­peace ship Arc­tic Sun­rise out-manoeu­vred MoD ships and is now anchored across the entrance to the base. Mean­while six small­er block­ing boats have dropped off Green­peace vol­un­teers in canoes who are attempt­ing to scale HMS Vig­i­lant, one of the UK’s four Van­guard nuclear weapons subs berthed at Faslane.

23 Feb­ru­ary: Green­peace ship the Arc­tic Sun­rise impound­ed dur­ing float­ing block­ade of Faslane naval base. Snip­pets below from GP press releas­es.

This morn­ing the Green­peace ship Arc­tic Sun­rise out-manoeu­vred MoD ships and is now anchored across the entrance to the base. Mean­while six small­er block­ing boats have dropped off Green­peace vol­un­teers in canoes who are attempt­ing to scale HMS Vig­i­lant, one of the UK’s four Van­guard nuclear weapons subs berthed at Faslane.
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Lat­er that day:
UPDATE: Twen­ty mil­i­tary police stormed the ship and smashed their way onto the bridge of the Arc­tic Sun­rise short­ly after 5pm fol­low­ing the day-long stand-off. The mil­i­tary police cut the anchor chain and towed the ship into the nuclear base. All onboard have been arrest­ed for being in a restrict­ed area.

See http://www.greenpeace.org.uk for more (pix, etc)
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6388967.stm

The Arc­tic Sun­rise is due to berth on the Thames in ear­ly March, ahead of the par­lia­men­tary debate and vote on Tri­dent replace­ment.