The RV Farley Mowat.
The RV Farley Mowat (formerly Sea Shepherd III and Ocean Warrior) was the former flagship of the Sea Shepherd fleet until it was seized by the Canadian government. Sea Shepherd refused to claim the vessel and it was later sold. In of 2015, the vessel was scrapped Canada's breaking yard in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
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The RV Farley Mowat was a former Norwegian fisheries enforcement ship. It was purchased by Sea Shepherd in 1996 and named Sea Shepherd III. In 1999, it was renamed Ocean Warrior. In 2002, it received its current name; RV Farley Mowat. It served on three Antarctic campaigns against the Japanese Whaling Fleet. Its last campaign to Antarctica was Operation Leviathan where it, the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza, and the Oriental Bluebird collided. In 2008, during a campaign to protect seals in the Canadian Arctic, The Farley Mowat was seized by Stephen Harper's Canadian government and impounded in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2015, she was towed to the nearby village of Shelburne and scrapped.