Photo: Petty Officer 3rd Class Matt Thieme, U.S. Coast Guard · Public domain
CG MELVIN BELL
46 metres of law-enforcement vessel
No timed run yet+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best—No clean timed run yet
Typical course time—Nothing to take a median of yet
Daily race record—Daily results are still being settled
Stare-down record—No pass with another boat yet
Everything on file.
- Official name
- CG MELVIN BELL
- MMSI
- 338926455
- IMO
- none on file
- Call sign
- NMNB
- Type
- law-enforcement vessel (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- military gov
- Length
- 46 m
- Beam
- 7 m
- AIS ship type
- 55
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
- none
- 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
- 15.2 kn · 30 Mar 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.