Photo: U.S. Navy photo · Public domain
PATUXENT
207 metres of tanker · 31 years on the water
1st of 5 · 08:27 · 22 March 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:27Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:02Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record2–1Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record3–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- PATUXENT
- MMSI
- 367863000
- IMO
- 8906614
- Call sign
- NPCZ
- Flag
- US
- Type
- tanker (from its documentation class)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 1995 · 31 years old
- Length
- 207 m
- Beam
- 30 m
- AIS ship type
- 90
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
- 08:27 · 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
- 14:06 · Tankers, Outbound, whale season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 14.1 kn · 22 Mar 2025 · 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.