The MV White Holly was a 421-ton vessel owned and operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society since September 2018.
[2][3][1] The vessel was retrofitted in Fernandina Beach, Florida, to be used in direct action Sea Shepherd Conservation Society operations against illegal fisheries activities.
[4] The ship was built in 1944 for the US Navy and served in World War II in Pearl Harbor delivering ammunition to naval vessels.
[3] The vessel was purchased by Benoit Vulliet for oceanographic research,[5] and years later, he donated it to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Sea Shepherd plans to acquire a new vessel in 2022 to replace it on its Central America patrols.