Photo: US Navy photo. · Public domain
TRAVIS E WATKINS
290 metres of cargo ship
formerly WATKINS, US GOV VSL
4th of 7 · 09:21 · 29 June 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:09Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:44Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record2–4Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record3–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- TRAVIS E WATKINS
- MMSI
- 338815000
- IMO
- 9232230
- Call sign
- NIJB
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Length
- 290 m
- Beam
- 33 m
- AIS ship type
- 79
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
- 07:09 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.0
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
- 25.3 kn · 1 Jun 2026 · off Tacoma, WA · NOAA archive
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.