Sirenian (Sea Shepherd vessel)
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The Sirenian is a former U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat. Built in 1955 and was purchased by Sea Shepherd in 1991. She had powerful new engines installed in 1979, and can catch just about anything on the water.
She has gone up against Japanese pirate drift netters and played a leading role in the efforts to protect gray whales from being hunted off Neah Bay, WA. During a stand-off with whale hunt advocates the Sirenian was sabotaged in the fall of 1999 while in port in Seattle.
Recovered and fully overhauled, she left Seattle at the end of November 2000 for guard duty in the Galapagos National Park where she is today on 24 hour anti-poaching patrol.
The Sirenian is crewed by the Galapagos National Park rangers and works in partnership with the Guadaloupe River to protect the GNP from illegal fishing activities.
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