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TAIPAN
199 metres of cargo ship · 20 years on the water
4th of 11 · 08:14 · 23 December 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:44Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:50Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record2–4Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record2–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- TAIPAN
- MMSI
- 308921000
- IMO
- 9311866
- Call sign
- C6VF2
- Flag
- BS
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 199 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 57,692
- Deadweight
- 21,021 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
- 07:44 · 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
- 15.3 kn · 20 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.