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ESMERALDA
10 metres of container ship
formerly CMA CGM PHOENIX
1st of 3 · 09:03 · 3 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:03Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:00Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record1–1Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record0–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- ESMERALDA
- MMSI
- 338485000
- IMO
- none on file
- Call sign
- WDG2842
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Length
- 10 m
- Operator
- APL Maritime, Ltd.
- AIS ship type
- 30
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
- 09:03 · 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
- 17.6 kn · 25 Jan 2026 · 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.