Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
NORFOLK EXPRESS
368 metres of container ship · 13 years on the water
formerly THALASSA HELLAS
6th of 7 · 11:37 · 13 February 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:18Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:01Median of 9 archive runs
Daily race record0–9Wins – losses · 9 starts
Stare-down record4–8Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- NORFOLK EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 563377000
- IMO
- 9665592
- Call sign
- 9V2228
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2013 · 13 years old
- Length
- 368 m
- Beam
- 51 m
- Gross tonnage
- 149,475
- Deadweight
- 157,695 t
- Capacity
- 13,808 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 71
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
- 08:18 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.8
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
- 14.4 kn · 24 Apr 2024 · 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.