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GSL ALEXANDRA

352 metres of container ship · 22 years on the water

formerly ADRIAN MAERSK

3rd of 8 · 07:42 · 13 January 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.

Personal best07:30Archive timing · 3.7 km course time

Typical course time09:24Median of 12 archive runs

Daily race record0–12Wins – losses · 12 starts

Stare-down record8–6Wins – losses · all opponents

Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name: GSL ALEXANDRA
MMSI: 636023060
IMO: 9260457
Call sign: 5LLT3
Flag: LR
Type: container ship (from the liner schedule)
Class: container
Built: 2004 · 22 years old
Length: 352 m
Beam: 43 m
Gross tonnage: 93,496
Deadweight: 109,000 t
Capacity: 8,272 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.

Her best, by register

Two measurements, kept apart.

Window best: none
Archive best: 07:30 · 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.

Records held

What she holds.

None.

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed: 22.2 kn · 13 Jun 2026 · off Vancouver, BC · NOAA archive
Fastest leg: Savannah, GA to Charleston, SC · 7 h 54 m · 9.3 kn average · 11 Jan 2026 · to the hour

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.

Identity history

Names and numbers.

Current name: GSL ALEXANDRA
Former names: ADRIAN MAERSK
MMSIs on file: 636023060, 220245000
Hull keyed by: IMO 9260457

A ship keeps her IMO number for life and changes her name and MMSI when she is sold or reflagged, so one hull holds every identity she has carried.

What the window has seen

Last observed.

First seen: 23 February 2023
Last seen: 13 January 2026
Passages observed: 12 (6 in, 6 out)
Port calls: Seen here about 5 times a year
Typical port stay: 20 hours (median)
Latest direction: Outbound

Last observed: Jan 13, 2026 · 7:22 am · heading out to sea (13 January 2026, 07:22). A last observed passage is where she was seen, not where she is.

Our estimate, not a schedule: Around January 2027 — based on how often we've seen her, timing uncertain after the 2026 gap · low confidence, a rough guess.