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NORTHERN PRIORITY
264 metres of container ship · 17 years on the water
3rd of 11 · 08:35 · 12 January 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:43Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:48Median of 8 archive runs
Daily race record1–7Wins – losses · 8 starts
Stare-down record5–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- NORTHERN PRIORITY
- MMSI
- 636091832
- IMO
- 9450313
- Call sign
- A8TL3
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2009 · 17 years old
- Length
- 264 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 47,789
- Deadweight
- 59,367 t
- Capacity
- 4,616 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
- 06:43 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.0
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
- 17.9 kn · 7 Dec 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.