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MERCURY ACE
199 metres of car carrier · 15 years on the water
4th of 6 · 09:49 · 13 July 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:49Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:26Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record1–3Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record2–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MERCURY ACE
- MMSI
- 370644000
- IMO
- 9591052
- Call sign
- 3FNS7
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- car carrier (from its name)
- Class
- car carrier
- Built
- 2011 · 15 years old
- Length
- 199 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 59,409
- Deadweight
- 19,110 t
- 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
- 09:49 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- 0.0
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.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 12.1 kn · 13 Jul 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.