MPs Bob Marshall Andrews and Roger Gale will be boarding the Rainbow Warrior at Chatham on Friday.

The Labour MP for Medway and the North Thanet Conservative MP will be joined by representatives from Medway Council, Medway Youth Parliament, Dartford Council and a range of local environmental, development and trade union groups.

After leaving Chatham at 9.30am, the Rainbow Warrior headed past Kingsnorth, where power company E.ON is planning to build the first coal power station for a generation.

The Rainbow Warrior then sailed towards the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm, off the coast of Whitstable and Herne Bay.

On board, Dr Geoff Meaden, a climate change expert from Canterbury Christ Church University, will tell the MPs and other guests about the impact global warming will have on Kent if projects like the new coal power station at Kingsnorth go ahead.

The 55-metre vessel, one of the most famous ships in the world because of her environmental activities, is part of Greenpeace’s Give Coal the Boot campaign.

Joss Garman, of Greenpeace, aboard the Rainbow Warrior, said: “Kent is extremely vulnerable to climate impacts and another coal plant at Kingsnorth is only going to make this prospect worse.

“But the Kentish Flats wind farm offers a glimpse of a clean future in which Kent is at the forefront of a green energy revolution.”