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BBC PEARL
154 metres of container ship · 14 years on the water
1st of 1 · 11:35 · 1 October 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:38Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:22Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record2–1Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record0–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BBC PEARL
- MMSI
- 305855000
- IMO
- 9504786
- Call sign
- V2FY8
- Flag
- AG
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2012 · 14 years old
- Length
- 154 m
- Beam
- 24 m
- Gross tonnage
- 12,838
- Deadweight
- 14,418 t
- Capacity
- 987 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 79
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
- 07:38 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.9
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.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 15.4 kn · 31 Aug 2025 · 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.