Boat Gallery

France-Nuclear Testing-Rainbow Warrior

The French frigate "Vandemaire" (foreground) shadows "Rainbow Warrior" (R) and "Greenpeace" (L), two ships of the environmental pressure group Greenpeace, and the Cook Island schooner "Te Ka toa" (2nd-R) 30 August 1995 at the edge of the exclusion zone declared around the French nuclear testing site, Mururoa Atoll. France conducted 193 underground and atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in French Plynesia between 1966 and 27 January 1996. The first "Rainbow Warrior" ship, the Greenpeace's flagship, was bombed by the French secret service in 1985 on its way to protest nuclear testing in the Pacific. / AFP PHOTO / MARCEL MOCHET

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France-Taiwan-Justice-Ships

(FILES) -- A file photo taken 13 June 1992 shows the Lafayette frigate, which is identical to the six warships sold to Taipei in 1991, in Lorient's naval base, western France. Five years after the beginning of the investigation on the six naval frigates sold to Taiwan, French judges closed 12 October 2006 the state-related case, without identifying the beneficiaries of the potential retro-commissions payed during the 2, 8 billion dollar deal. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP PHOTO / AFP FILES / PHILIPPE HUGUEN

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Monaco-Yacht-Show

Yachts at Port Hercules during the 24th edition of the International Monaco Yacht Show in Monaco. The Monaco Yacht Show, which runs until September 27, is considered the most prestigious pleasure boat show in the world with the exhibition of 500 major companies in the luxury yachting and a hundred super and megayachts afloat. AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE / AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE

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