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THERMOPYLAE
200 metres of cargo ship · 11 years on the water
2nd of 2 · 11:06 · 5 October 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:51Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:11Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record3–5Wins – losses · 8 starts
Stare-down record4–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- THERMOPYLAE
- MMSI
- 229711000
- IMO
- 9702443
- Call sign
- 9HA3539
- Flag
- MT
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 2015 · 11 years old
- Length
- 200 m
- Beam
- 37 m
- Gross tonnage
- 75,283
- Deadweight
- 23,786 t
- AIS ship type
- 70
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
- 08:22 · Window timing, since 29 September 2026
- Archive best
- 07:51 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- +1.3
- Best race score, archive
- none
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.
- Best race score
- +1.3 · Other big ships, Inbound, open season, Window
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 16.3 kn · 5 Oct 2026 · off Charleston, SC · our antenna
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.