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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Headquarters: Washington
Founded: 1977
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Copyleft · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

3,120

Summed over 5 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is

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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is a non-profit, marine conservation activism organization based in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington, in the United States. Sea Shepherd employs direct action tactics to achieve its goals, most famously by deploying its fleet of ships to track, report on and actively impede the work of fishing vessels they believe to be engaged in illegal and unregulated activities causing the unsustainable exploitation of marine life.

Origin

Who founded it

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was founded in 1977 in Oregon by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Paul Watson

1950

Canadian environmental activist

Photo: Witty lama · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: charitable organization
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Washington
Formed in: Oregon
Founded: 1977
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 47.5000, -120.5000

Ships on record here: 7
Vessel types operated: 4
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 59.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1950
Newest vessel on record: 1993
Largest vessel by tonnage: 1,017
Average tonnage: 624
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 7 vessels this registry attributes to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Damen Group1

Ferguson Marine1

Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted1

Hall, Russell & Company1

IHI Corporation1

Mjellem & Karlsen Verft1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	6
2018	—	6
2019	—	6
2020	—	6
2021	—	6
2022	—	6
2023	—	6
2024	—	6
2025	—	6
2026	—	6

Vessel records

Ships on record · Research / survey

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
RV Farley Mowat	5172602	Research / survey	Norway	1957	677	—	52.4 m	Mjellem & Karlsen Verft

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Sea Shepherd Conservation Society compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 7 vessels attributed to it here, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is the 123rd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ranks 13th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is 49 years old. This directory holds 100 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.