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MAJ BERNARD F FISHER
198 metres of container ship · 41 years on the water
3rd of 6 · 10:52 · 10 August 2022+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best10:52Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time16:31Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAJ BERNARD F FISHER
- MMSI
- 338481000
- IMO
- 8320559
- Call sign
- KBGK
- Flag
- US
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1985 · 41 years old
- Length
- 198 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 34,318
- Deadweight
- 24,500 t
- Capacity
- 1,914 TEU
- Operator
- SEALIFT INC
- 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
- 10:52 · 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.
- Slowest and most majestic
- 22:10 · Car carriers, Inbound, open season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 11.8 kn · 10 Aug 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.