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VIRGO
265 metres of container ship · 17 years on the water
1st of 6 · 07:35 · 24 December 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:35Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:49Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record1–4Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record2–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- VIRGO
- MMSI
- 215561000
- IMO
- 9430765
- Call sign
- 9HA5181
- Flag
- MT
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2009 · 17 years old
- Length
- 265 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 41,225
- Deadweight
- 56,574 t
- Capacity
- 4,258 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 71
Particulars come from her AIS broadcast and the sourced facts ledger. A type decided from her name or her operator is a guess and is labelled as one.
Two measurements, kept apart.
- Window best
- none
- Archive best
- 07:35 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.2
The window receiver times a gate to about a second; the national archive carries one fix a minute, interpolated to about two. Her two bests are two different measurements and are never ranked against each other.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 16.7 kn · 16 Apr 2022 · off Charleston, SC · national archive 2021-25
From our own position archives, with reasonableness checks: a plausible top speed over a corroborated window, a direct leg between two named places. A bound carries no second fix to confirm it and is labelled as one.