''Sea Shepherd I'' was a former fishing trawler owned by the

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is a non-profit, marine conservation activism organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington, Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington, in the United States. Sea Shepherd employs direct action t ...

. She was British-registered and acquired in 1978 with a grant from the

Fund for Animals Cleveland Amory (September 2, 1917 – October 14, 1998) was an American author, reporter, television critic, commentator and animal rights activist. He originally was known for writing a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions an ...

. This was the first ship that the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society bought. Her major action was ramming into the whaler '' MV Sierra'' and she later was

scuttled Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship. Scuttling may be performed to dispose of an abandoned, old, or captured vessel; to prevent the vessel from becoming a navigation hazard; as an act of self-destruction to prevent the ship from being ...

by the captain,

Paul Watson Paul Franklin Watson (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American conservation and environmental movement, environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine c ...

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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ships Scuttled vessels Maritime incidents in 1980 Shipwrecks of Portugal 1960 ships Ships built in England {{hunting-stub