MY Steve Irwin
patrol vessel
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- MY Steve Irwin
- IMO number
- 7340370
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- patrol vessel
- Gross tonnage
- 1,017
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 59.4 m
- Beam
- 11 m
- Year built
- 1975
- Builder
- Hall, Russell & Company
- Registered owner
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About MY Steve Irwin
MY Steve Irwin is a 59-metre (194 ft) motor vessel that previously was the 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, 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 September 4, 2006. Irwin had considered joining the vessel on a voyage to Antarctica shortly before his death, and the renaming was endorsed by his widow Terri.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is MY Steve Irwin now?
- MY Steve Irwin has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is MY Steve Irwin?
- MY Steve Irwin is a patrol vessel, built in 1975 by Hall, Russell & Company. The vessel is 59.4 m long with a beam of 11 m and has a gross tonnage of 1,017.
- Who owns MY Steve Irwin?
- MY Steve Irwin is registered to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has MY Steve Irwin been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for MY Steve Irwin appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).