Photo: US Navy photo · Public domain
US GOVERNMENT VSL
290 metres of cargo ship
formerly WATSON
1st of 5 · 09:16 · 25 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:04Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:04Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record5–1Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record3–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- US GOVERNMENT VSL
- MMSI
- 368707000
- IMO
- 9112727
- Call sign
- NHLS
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Length
- 290 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- AIS ship type
- 70
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
- 08:04 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.1
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
- 23.9 kn · 9 May 2026 · off Key West, FL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Baltimore, MD to New Orleans, LA · 169 h 1 m · 5.1 kn average · 4 May 2026 · to the hour
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.