PATRIOT

199 metres of cargo ship · 20 years on the water

4th of 5 · 09:05 · 13 February 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.

Personal best06:48Archive timing · 3.7 km course time

Typical course time09:19Median of 54 archive runs

Daily race record26–28Wins – losses · 54 starts

Stare-down record20–19–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents

Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name: PATRIOT
Nickname: Captain Patriot
MMSI: 303210000
IMO: 9316139
Call sign: WAIU
Flag: US
Type: cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
Class: cargo
Built: 2006 · 20 years old
Length: 199 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: 06:48 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
Best race score, window: none
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.

Records held

What she holds.

Fastest course time: 06:48 · Other big ships, Inbound, whale season, Archive

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed: 17.3 kn · 29 Apr 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.

Identity history

Names and numbers.

Current name: PATRIOT
Former names: none on file
MMSIs on file: 303210000
Hull keyed by: IMO 9316139

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: 26 September 2021
Last seen: 13 February 2026
Passages observed: 61 (30 in, 31 out)
Port calls: Seen here about 6 times a year
Typical port stay: 29 hours (median)
Latest direction: Outbound

Last observed: Feb 13, 2026 · 2:50 pm · heading out to sea (13 February 2026, 14:50). A last observed passage is where she was seen, not where she is.

Our estimate, not a schedule: Around December 2026 — based on how often we've seen her, timing uncertain after the 2026 gap · low confidence, a rough guess.