Photo: kees torn · CC BY-SA 2.0
ARC DEFENDER
200 metres of cargo ship · 18 years on the water
5th of 6 · 09:51 · 14 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:53Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:54Median of 46 archive runs
Daily race record19–27Wins – losses · 46 starts
Stare-down record21–9–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- ARC DEFENDER
- MMSI
- 338145000
- IMO
- 9375264
- Call sign
- WDM6793
- Flag
- US
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 200 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 61,328
- Deadweight
- 22,144 t
- Operator
- American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier LLC
- 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
- 06:53 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.5
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.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 17.2 kn · 3 Sept 2023 · off Charleston, SC · national archive 2021-25
- Fastest leg
- Bremerhaven to Zeebrugge · 28 h 56 m · 8.2 kn average · 4 Oct 2026 · bound
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.