The Golden Rule – Sails Again for Peace

From Friends Journal -

Historic peace activism sailboat Golden Rule to make another voyage

“From 1946 to 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands displacing Indigenous inhabitants and spreading radiation around the globe. Efforts from a concerned public were unsuccessful in stopping the nuclear weapons testing, so in 1958, four Quaker peace activists attempted to sail the Golden Rule from Los Angeles, Calif., to the Marshall Islands to interfere with the tests.

Click here to read more about The Golden Rule, her past, present, and future.

The BYM will welcome her to the Baltimore harbor in April 2023, perhaps the Annapolis Friends and the sailing community will join to welcome her to Annapolis.

Photo from the Albert Bigelow Papers, courtesy of Swarthmore College Peace Collection.