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OVERSEAS HOUSTON
183 metres of tanker · 19 years on the water
6th of 6 · 16:39 · 1 October 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:36Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:25Median of 30 archive runs
Daily race record5–25Wins – losses · 30 starts
Stare-down record19–14Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- OVERSEAS HOUSTON
- MMSI
- 367109000
- IMO
- 9351062
- Call sign
- WWAA
- Flag
- US
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 2007 · 19 years old
- Length
- 183 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Operator
- Maritime Partners, LLC
- AIS ship type
- 80
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
- 07:36 · 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
- 16:39 · Tankers, Outbound, open season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 15.5 kn · 21 Jan 2023 · 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.