MV Emanuel Bronner

The MV Emanuel Bronner is a small ship owned and operated by Sea Shepherd Germany as a Baltic Sea conservation patrol vessel.^[1][2] It was unveiled on 1 June 2017 at the Vegesack museum harbor in Bremen, Germany.

History
Germany
Launched	2017
Fate	Sold to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Germany
Name	MV Emanuel Bronner
Owner	Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Operator	Sea Shepherd Germany
Port of registry	Germany
Commissioned	1 June 2017
In service	2017—present
Identification	Call sign: DF9593 MMSI number: 211417760
Status	in active service
General characteristics
Displacement	11 tons
Length	11.65 m (38.2 ft)
Beam	3.6 m (12 ft)
Draft	1.4 m (4 ft 7 in)
Installed power	2 engines
Speed	27 knots
Complement	Max. 4

The vessel was donated by philanthropist Michael Bronner, and it was named after his grandfather, Emanuel Bronner. The vessel will help to protect the endangered harbor porpoise in the Baltic Sea by documenting illegal fishing nets and reporting them to the local authorities.^[3][4]

Although the harbour porpoise species overall is considered to be of Least Concern by the IUCN,^[5] the Baltic Sea and Western African populations, as well as the subspecies P. p. relicta of the Black Sea, are considered endangered.^[6][7]

A harbour porpoise

See also

• Neptune's Navy, Sea Shepherd's fleet