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BESS
199 metres of cargo ship · 16 years on the water
1st of 4 · 07:50 · 27 August 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:50Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:48Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record2–3Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record6–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BESS
- MMSI
- 259249000
- IMO
- 9531715
- Call sign
- LAZD8
- Flag
- NO
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 2010 · 16 years old
- Length
- 199 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 58,908
- Deadweight
- 18,013 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
- none
- Archive best
- 07:50 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.5
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
- 15.7 kn · 1 Apr 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.