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GSL SOFIA
352 metres of container ship · 23 years on the water
4th of 5 · 10:29 · 21 February 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:37Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:00Median of 8 archive runs
Daily race record1–7Wins – losses · 8 starts
Stare-down record3–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- GSL SOFIA
- MMSI
- 636023061
- IMO
- 9260421
- Call sign
- 5LLT4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 352 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 93,496
- Deadweight
- 109,000 t
- Capacity
- 8,272 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
- 08:37 · 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.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 20.9 kn · 21 Feb 2026 · off Freeport, TX · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 28 m · 28.1 kn average · 16 Feb 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.