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SONIC
231 metres of container ship · 17 years on the water
1st of 4 · 06:59 · 26 February 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:59Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time07:19Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record1–1Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record2–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- SONIC
- MMSI
- 636020787
- IMO
- 9436484
- Call sign
- 5LAS4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2009 · 17 years old
- Length
- 231 m
- Beam
- 31 m
- Gross tonnage
- 36,007
- Deadweight
- 41,975 t
- Capacity
- 3,534 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
- 06:59 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.1
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
- 16.8 kn · 26 Feb 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.