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SC MERCURY
178 metres of tanker · 10 years on the water
3rd of 4 · 10:16 · 17 February 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:52Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:54Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record0–4Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record1–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- SC MERCURY
- MMSI
- 477584600
- IMO
- 9746188
- Call sign
- VRPX8
- Flag
- HK
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 2016 · 10 years old
- Length
- 178 m
- Beam
- 28 m
- Gross tonnage
- 20,600
- Deadweight
- 33,985 t
- AIS ship type
- 82
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
- 08:52 · 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
- 13.6 kn · 8 Feb 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.