Photo: Ed Randall · CC BY-SA 3.0
HEROIC ACE
198 metres of car carrier · 23 years on the water
3rd of 10 · 09:30 · 16 December 2021+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:30Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:52Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record1–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- HEROIC ACE
- MMSI
- 352915000
- IMO
- 9252216
- Call sign
- HPFM
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- car carrier (from its name)
- Class
- car carrier
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 198 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 56,555
- Deadweight
- 19,879 t
- 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
- 09:30 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- -0.6
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
- 13.5 kn · 16 Dec 2021 · 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.