Photo: Alf van Beem · CC0
GSL LYDIA
352 metres of container ship · 23 years on the water
formerly AXEL MAERSK
1st of 5 · 07:53 · 17 February 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:49Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:09Median of 17 archive runs
Daily race record2–15Wins – losses · 17 starts
Stare-down record6–10–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- GSL LYDIA
- MMSI
- 636023063
- IMO
- 9260419
- Call sign
- 5LLT6
- 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
- 122,077 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
- 07:49 · 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
- 22.6 kn · 2 Jun 2026 · off Vancouver, BC · NOAA archive
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.