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MANON

228 metres of car carrier · 27 years on the water

formerly BOURBON SAPPHIRE

2nd of 5 · 09:06 · 2 March 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.

Personal best06:34Archive timing · 3.7 km course time

Typical course time08:22Median of 7 archive runs

Daily race record3–4Wins – losses · 7 starts

Stare-down record6–3Wins – losses · all opponents

Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name: MANON
MMSI: 259001000
IMO: 9179725
Call sign: LATJ8
Flag: NO
Type: car carrier (from the liner schedule)
Class: car carrier
Built: 1999 · 27 years old
Length: 228 m
Beam: 32 m
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.

Her best, by register

Two measurements, kept apart.

Window best: none
Archive best: 06:34 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
Best race score, window: none
Best race score, archive: +1.9

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.

Records held

What she holds.

Fastest course time: 06:34 · Other big ships, Outbound, open season, Archive

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed: 17.6 kn · 11 Jun 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.

Identity history

Names and numbers.

Current name: MANON
Former names: BOURBON SAPPHIRE
MMSIs on file: 259001000, 566184000
Hull keyed by: IMO 9179725

A ship keeps her IMO number for life and changes her name and MMSI when she is sold or reflagged, so one hull holds every identity she has carried.

What the window has seen

Last observed.

First seen: 12 April 2022
Last seen: 2 March 2025
Passages observed: 8 (4 in, 4 out)
Port calls: Seen here about 2 times a year
Typical port stay: 21 hours (median)
Latest direction: Outbound

Last observed: Mar 2, 2025 · 5:40 pm · heading out to sea (2 March 2025, 17:40). A last observed passage is where she was seen, not where she is.

Our estimate, not a schedule: No firm estimate — Due sometime in the next 6 months; timing uncertain after the 2026 gap in our records · low confidence, a rough guess.