In September 2022 it launched an 11,000 mile Great Loop voyage to promote nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
In 1958, four men associated with the Quaker religion sailed toward Enewetok atoll in the Marshall Islands aboard Golden Rule with the goal of preventing atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.
The US Coast Guard stopped the vessel in Honolulu, arresting her skipper, Albert Bigelow, who once served as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.
She continues to sail on a peace mission to promote non-violence and to spread an anti-nuclear message to the general public.
Vets for Peace began a project in September 2022 to sail a "Great Loop" from Minnesota down the Mississippi to the Gulf, up the east coast and through the Erie Canal , through the Great Lakes, to end in Chicago in September 2023.