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HELEN
39 metres of tug · 51 years on the water
1st of 1 · 18:49 · 9 March 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best10:50Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time16:11Median of 10 archive runs
Daily race record9–1Wins – losses · 10 starts
Stare-down record0–9Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- HELEN
- MMSI
- 368181750
- IMO
- 7420390
- Call sign
- WDL9733
- Flag
- US
- Type
- tug (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- tug
- Built
- 1975 · 51 years old
- Length
- 39 m
- Beam
- 12 m
- Gross tonnage
- 265
- Operator
- Dann Ocean Towing, Inc.
- AIS ship type
- 52
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
- 10:50 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- -1.2
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
- 29:32 · Other big ships, Inbound, open season, Archive
- Slowest and most majestic
- 47:05 · Other big ships, Inbound, whale season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 11.9 kn · 28 Nov 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.