RV Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat at Docklands, Melbourne, Australia | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Johan Hjort |
| Namesake | Johan Hjort |
| Port of registry | Norway |
| Builder | Mjellem & Karlsen, Bergen, Norway |
| Yard number | 79 |
| Launched | 1956 |
| In service | 1957 |
| Out of service | 1983 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5172602 |
| Name | Skandi Ocean |
| Port of registry | Norway |
| Acquired | 1983 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5172602 |
| Name | STM Ocean |
| Port of registry | Norway |
| Acquired | 1990 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5172602 |
| Name | Cam Vulcan |
| Port of registry | Norway |
| Acquired | 1990 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5172602 |
| Name | Sea Shepherd (1997), Ocean Warrior (2000), Farley Mowat (2002) |
| Namesake | Farley Mowat |
| Owner | Sea Shepherd Conservation Society |
| Port of registry | Canada (2002), UK (2006), Belize (2006), (2007), Netherlands (2008) |
| Acquired | August 1996 |
| Out of service | 2008 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5172602 |
| Fate | Impounded in 2008 and sold at auction by the Canadian Government in 2009 |
| Owner | Green Ship LLC |
| Acquired | November 2009 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5172602 |
| Status | Retrofit for Pacific Gyre studies; abandoned due to financial difficulties |
| Owner | Tracy Dodds |
| Acquired | March 2013 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5172602 |
| Fate | Purchased for demolition |
| Status | Laid up at Shelburne NS |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 648 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Displacement | 657 long tons (668 t) |
| Length | 52.4 m (172 ft) |
| Beam | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
| Ice class | Yes |
| Installed power | 1,400 hp (1,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | Variable-pitch propeller |
| Speed | 10 kts |
RV Farley Mowat was a long-range, ice class ship. Originally built as a Norwegian fisheries research and enforcement vessel, she was purchased by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 1996. Originally named Sea Shepherd III, the name was changed in 1999 to Ocean Warrior, before eventually being renamed in 2002 after Canadian writer Farley Mowat.
She was the flagship of Sea Shepherd's fleet until seized by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans off the coast of Newfoundland in April 2008. She was sold for Can$5,000 by court order in November 2009 to Green Ship LLC, a company headquartered in Oregon. During 2010, she was moored in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, undergoing refit for operation as an expedition vessel for research in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. However, by 2011, the ship was on the market again to cover unpaid docking fees and was eventually sold in March 2013. The vessel, stripped of her superstructure having been purchased for scrap, sank at her berth at Shelburne, Nova Scotia in June 2015 and was subsequently raised. The vessel remained laid up at Shelburne until July 2017, when the hulk was taken away to be broken up.