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SEASPAN EMPIRE
294 metres of container ship · 17 years on the water
formerly MOL EMPIRE
3rd of 3 · 10:38 · 22 February 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:32Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:28Median of 15 archive runs
Daily race record4–11Wins – losses · 15 starts
Stare-down record11–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- SEASPAN EMPIRE
- MMSI
- 477655900
- IMO
- 9407160
- Call sign
- VRGE7
- Flag
- HK
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2009 · 17 years old
- Length
- 294 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 54,940
- Deadweight
- 67,000 t
- Capacity
- 5,100 TEU
- 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
- 07:32 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.9
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
- 15.6 kn · 10 May 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.