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BBC URANUS
179 metres of cargo ship · 4 years on the water
3rd of 3 · 27:47 · 23 August 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best27:47Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time27:47Median of 1 archive runs
Daily race record0–1Wins – losses · 1 starts
Stare-down record0–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BBC URANUS
- MMSI
- 636093091
- IMO
- 9947768
- Call sign
- 5LFA7
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 2022 · 4 years old
- Length
- 179 m
- Beam
- 30 m
- 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
- 27:47 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- -5.9
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
- 11.1 kn · 26 Aug 2023 · 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.