Photo: United States Navy, Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Zach Hernandez · Public domain
US GOV VSL 1
210 metres of cargo ship · 20 years on the water
formerly LEWIS AND CLARK
3rd of 3 · 12:00 · 2 October 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best12:00Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time12:00Median of 1 archive runs
Daily race record0–1Wins – losses · 1 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- US GOV VSL 1
- MMSI
- 369854000
- IMO
- 9271418
- Call sign
- NLNC
- Flag
- US
- Type
- cargo ship (from its documentation class)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 210 m
- Beam
- 32 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
- 12:00 · 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.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 12.1 kn · 12 Oct 2024 · 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.