The Sea-Eye is a former fishing trawler. The ship was bought by Sea-Eye e.V. in 2014 and was used as a rescue ship in the southern Mediterranean from 2015 to 2018, primarily between Malta and Libya. The ship sailed under the flag of the Netherlands. Her sister ship is the Seefuchs (described on the Sea-Eye website as identical and built within a year of Sea-Eye[1]), which until 2019 was also used by Sea-Eye.