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BBC MOONSTONE
154 metres of container ship · 13 years on the water
3rd of 5 · 09:45 · 29 April 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:04Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:15Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record2–3Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record4–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BBC MOONSTONE
- MMSI
- 305856000
- IMO
- 9563732
- Call sign
- V2FY9
- Flag
- AG
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2013 · 13 years old
- Length
- 154 m
- Beam
- 24 m
- Gross tonnage
- 12,838
- Deadweight
- 14,338 t
- Capacity
- 987 TEU
- 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
- 08:04 · 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.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 15.1 kn · 10 Aug 2024 · 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.