RFA WAVE KNIGHT
196 metres of tanker · 24 years on the water
4th of 7 · 09:41 · 15 January 2022+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:41Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:45Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record2–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- RFA WAVE KNIGHT
- MMSI
- 235491000
- IMO
- 9168594
- Call sign
- GWBU
- Flag
- GB
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 2002 · 24 years old
- Length
- 196 m
- Beam
- 30 m
- Gross tonnage
- 23,294
- AIS ship type
- 80
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
- 09:41 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.1
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
- 12.7 kn · 15 Jan 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.