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BOW HERCULES
183 metres of tanker · 9 years on the water
4th of 4 · 11:12 · 20 December 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best11:12Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time11:36Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record1–1Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record1–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BOW HERCULES
- MMSI
- 257370000
- IMO
- 9752046
- Call sign
- LAXU5
- Flag
- NO
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 2017 · 9 years old
- Length
- 183 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- AIS ship type
- 82
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
- 11:12 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- -0.4
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
- 11.3 kn · 20 Dec 2023 · 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.