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SWANSEA

270 metres of container ship · 12 years on the water

5th of 6 · 09:16 · 9 April 2023+ Follow this boat
Personal best07:54Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:26Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record1–5Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record1–7Wins – losses · all opponents
Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name
SWANSEA
MMSI
636016231
IMO
9629469
Call sign
D5FD2
Flag
LR
Type
container ship (from the liner schedule)
Class
container
Built
2014 · 12 years old
Length
270 m
Beam
42 m
Gross tonnage
69,809
Deadweight
80,529 t
Capacity
6,622 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.

Her best, by register

Two measurements, kept apart.

Window best
none
Archive best
07:54 · 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.

Records held

What she holds.

None.

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed
20.0 kn · 4 Jan 2026 · off Willemstad, Curacao · NOAA archive
Fastest leg
Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 24 m · 29.5 kn average · 21 Mar 2026

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.