Photo: United States Navy, Photographer's Mate Airman Rob Gaston · Public domain
JOHN LENTHALL
206 metres of tanker · 39 years on the water
1st of 1 · 08:28 · 6 October 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:26Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:48Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record2–2Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record0–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- JOHN LENTHALL
- MMSI
- 367932000
- IMO
- 8325547
- Call sign
- NJLN
- Flag
- US
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 1987 · 39 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
- 08:26 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.0
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.
- Best race score
- +2.0 · Tankers, Outbound, open season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 14.1 kn · 16 Aug 2022 · 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.