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In addition, many detection models contain a large amount of parameters, which is not suitable to deploy in devices with limited computing resources. The two problems restrict the application of ship detection. In this paper, firstly, an SAR ship detection dataset is built based on several databases, solving the problem of a small number of ship samples. Then, we integrate the SPP, ASFF, and DIOU-NMS module into original YOLOv3 to improve the ship detection performance. SPP and ASFF help enrich semantic information of ship targets. DIOU-NMS can lower the false alarm. The improved YOLOv3 has 93.37% mAP, 4.11% higher than YOLOv3 on the self-built dataset. Then, we use the MCP method to compress the improved YOLOv3. Under the pruning ratio of 80%, the obtained compressed model has only 6.7 M parameters. Experiments show that MCP outperforms NS and ThiNet. With the size of 26.8 MB, the compact model can run at 15 FPS on an NVIDIA TX2 embedded development board, 4.3 times faster than the baseline model. 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