Vessel used by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
MY Steve Irwin moored in West India Docks, London, 2011
History
Scotland
Name
1975–2006: FPV Westra
Owner
1975–1999: Secretary of State for Scotland
Operator
1975–2003: Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency
Ordered
1974
Builder
Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen, Scotland
Yard number
962
Christened
FPV Westra
In service
1975–2003
Out of service
2003–2006 (laid up for disposal)
Homeport
Leith, Scotland
Netherlands
Name
2006–2007: MV Robert Hunter
2007–2019: MY Steve Irwin
Namesake
Steve Irwin
Owner
2006–2019: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Operator
2006–2019: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Port of registry
Rotterdam, Netherlands
In service
2006
Out of service
2019
Homeport
Hobart, Tasmania
Identification
Call sign: PC9093
IMO number: 7340370
MMSI number: 244943000[1]
Status
Retired, to be preserved
General characteristics
Class and type
Island class patrol vessel
Tonnage
885 gt
Length
59.43 m (195 ft)
Beam
10.97 m (36 ft)
Draught
4.26 m (14 ft)
Ice class
None
Propulsion
2 x British Polar Engines 12-cylinder 2,100 bhp (1,600 kW), driving a variable-pitch propeller
Speed
12.5–16.5 knots (23–31 km/h)
Capacity
200 tons fuel
Crew
43
Aircraft carried
1 MD Helicopters MD 500 can be embarked
Notes
[2]
The MV Steve Irwin was the 59-metre (194 ft) flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and was used in their direct action campaigns against whaling and against illegal fisheries activities. The vessel was built in 1975 and formerly served as a Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency conservation enforcement patrol boat, the FPV Westra, for 28 years.
Sea Shepherd had originally christened the vessel the MV Robert Hunter after Canadian Robert Hunter,[3] co-founder of Greenpeace, but it was renamed in honor of The Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin, who had died just over a year earlier, on December 5, 2007.[4] Irwin had considered joining the vessel on a voyage to Antarctica shortly before his death, and the renaming was endorsed by his widow Terri.[5]
The ship and her crew, and their efforts for conservation, were the subject of the Animal Planet show Whale Wars.
The MV Steve Irwin is now moored at Thales Marine in the City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and is now in the ownership of the not for profit Ship4Good.
^"Steve Irwin". MarineTraffic.com. Archived from the original on April 7, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
^"Fishery Protection Vessel List" (PDF). Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency. April 30, 2007. p. 42. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
^Neptune's Navy Archived November 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
^"Sea Shepherd Renames Its Whale Defending Ship the Steve Irwin". Sea Shepherd. December 5, 2007. Archived from the original on January 5, 2008.
^Sea Shepherd honours Steve Irwin Perth Now, December 5, 2007
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Scotland
Netherlands