Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
CHEM RANGER
159 metres of tanker · 16 years on the water
4th of 4 · 10:19 · 31 December 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:43Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:12Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record0–4Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record1–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- CHEM RANGER
- MMSI
- 538004628
- IMO
- 9490296
- Call sign
- V7YC8
- Flag
- MH
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 2010 · 16 years old
- Length
- 159 m
- Beam
- 27 m
- Gross tonnage
- 16,433
- Deadweight
- 26,198 t
- AIS ship type
- 80
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
- 09:43 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- -0.5
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
- 12.3 kn · 15 Jul 2022 · 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.