MY Bob Barker
Bob Barker in port
|
|
| History | |
|---|---|
 Norway
|
|
| Name: | Pol XIV |
| Owner: | Hvalfangerselskap Polaris A/S |
| Port of registry: | Larvik, Norway |
| Builder: | Fredrikstad MV, Fredrikstad, Norway |
| Yard number: | 333 |
| In service: | 1950–66 |
| Notes: | Operated as a whaler until 1962 |
|
Norway
|
|
| Name: | Volstad Jr. |
| Owner: | Einar Volstad PR |
| Port of registry: | Ålesund, Norway |
| In service: | 1966–97 |
|
Norway
|
|
| Name: | Verdi |
| Owner: | Lafjord Rederi A/S |
| Port of registry: | Bergen, Norway |
| In service: | 1997–98 |
|
Norway
|
|
| Name: | Volstad Jr. |
| Owner: | Lafjord Rederi A/S |
| Port of registry: | Bergen, Norway |
| In service: | 1998–2004 |
 Cook Islands
|
|
| Name: | Polaris |
| Owner: | Seven Sea Sg Inc |
| Port of registry: | Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
| In service: | 2005–09 |
| History | |
 |
|
| Name: | M/Y Bob Barker |
| Owner: | Sea Shepherd Conservation Society |
| Port of registry: | Togo registry withdrawn as of February 2010 |
| Laid down: | 1950 |
| In service: | 2009–10 |
| Identification: |
|
| Status: | Re-Flagged to the Netherlands |
 Netherlands
|
|
| Name: | M/Y Bob Barker |
| Owner: | Sea Shepherd Conservation Society |
| Port of registry: | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| In service: | 2010–present |
| Identification: | |
| Status: | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 801 tonnes (788 long tons) |
| Length: | 52.2 m (171 ft) |
| Beam: | 9 m (30 ft) |
| Draft: | 5.95 m (19.52 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x 3000 hp diesel |
| Speed: | 18 kn (33.3 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 540 m³ of fuel |
| Complement: | 20–40 |
The MY Bob Barker is a ship owned and operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, named after American television game show host and animal rights activist Bob Barker, whose donation of $5 million to the society facilitated the purchase of the ship. She first started operating for the group in late 2009 / early 2010 in its campaign against whaling by Japanese fisheries. In October 2010, Sea Shepherd stated that Bob Barker had completed a massive refit in Hobart, Tasmania. Hobart is now the ship's honorary home port.
Bob Barker is described as a "long range fast ice" vessel of 801 tonnes (788 long tons) (or 1,200 t (1,200 long tons) according to some other references). It was built in Norway in 1950 as the whale catcher Pol XIV, but was deleted from the Norwegian ship registry in 2004, and sold to a Cook Islands registry concern. It was eventually purchased by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and refitted in Africa.
On 19 February 2010, Japanese officials said that Bob Barker's Togo registry had been withdrawn. On 24 May 2010, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society stated that Bob Barker was now registered under the Dutch flag.
After her African refit, Bob Barker departed Mauritius on 18 December 2009 to join up with the MY Steve Irwin and MY Ady Gil, the two other Sea Shepherd vessels. One of its first actions was to take video footage of the collision between Ady Gil and a Japanese security vessel, after which she took aboard the crew from the stricken Sea Shepherd craft.
On 6 February 2010, while obstructing the slip-way of Nisshin Maru factory ship, Bob Barker collided with Yūshin Maru No. 3, resulting in a 3-foot-4-inch (1.02 m) gash in Bob Barker's hull above the waterline. The Institute of Cetacean Research reported minor damage to a handrail and to the hull of its ship. Both Sea Shepherd and the ICR accused the other of intentionally causing the crash.
...
Wikipedia