Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua D. Petrosino · Public domain
KANAWHA
206 metres of tanker · 35 years on the water
2nd of 4 · 08:14 · 1 July 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:14Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:35Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record2–1–1Wins – losses – ties · 4 starts
Stare-down record2–0–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- KANAWHA
- MMSI
- 367865000
- IMO
- 8704080
- Call sign
- NPTD
- Flag
- US
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 1991 · 35 years old
- Length
- 206 m
- Beam
- 30 m
- 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
- 08:14 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.9
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
- 14.4 kn · 1 Jul 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.