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SILVER CLOUD
155 metres of cruise ship · 32 years on the water
2nd of 6 · 07:47 · 29 September 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:47Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:40Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- SILVER CLOUD
- MMSI
- 309027000
- IMO
- 8903923
- Call sign
- C6MQ5
- Flag
- BS
- Type
- cruise ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Cruise ships
- Built
- 1994 · 32 years old
- Length
- 155 m
- Beam
- 21 m
- AIS ship type
- 60
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
- 07:47 · 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 · 29 Sept 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.