Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
VELIKA EXPRESS
243 metres of container ship · 24 years on the water
4th of 4 · 08:24 · 11 May 2022+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:24Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:20Median of 11 archive runs
Daily race record3–8Wins – losses · 11 starts
Stare-down record5–5Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- VELIKA EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 636020938
- IMO
- 9243162
- Call sign
- 5LBM2
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2002 · 24 years old
- Length
- 243 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- AIS ship type
- 0
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
- 07:24 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.5
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
- 16.0 kn · 11 May 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.