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SAPPHIRE
272 metres of container ship · 2 years on the water
formerly ZIM SAPPHIRE
4th of 6 · 09:47 · 3 May 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:47Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:59Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record3–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- SAPPHIRE
- MMSI
- 563293700
- IMO
- 9968011
- Call sign
- 9V7762
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2024 · 2 years old
- Length
- 272 m
- Beam
- 42 m
- Gross tonnage
- 74,693
- Deadweight
- 81,643 t
- Capacity
- 7,000 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 74
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
- 09:47 · 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
- 12.5 kn · 3 May 2025 · 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.