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POPLAR ARROW

189 metres of cargo ship · 21 years on the water

1st of 6 · 08:10 · 29 January 2022+ Follow this boat
Personal best08:10Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:13Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record2–1Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record1–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name
POPLAR ARROW
MMSI
311744000
IMO
9235141
Call sign
C6TQ3
Flag
BS
Type
cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
Class
cargo
Built
2005 · 21 years old
Length
189 m
Beam
31 m
Gross tonnage
32,461
Deadweight
47,852 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.

Her best, by register

Two measurements, kept apart.

Window best
none
Archive best
08:10 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
Best race score, window
none
Best race score, archive
+0.5

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.

None.

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed
14.4 kn · 29 Jan 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.