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BF HAMBURG
293 metres of container ship · 17 years on the water
formerly HAMBURG
8th of 9 · 09:18 · 11 March 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:47Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:26Median of 10 archive runs
Daily race record1–9Wins – losses · 10 starts
Stare-down record3–5–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BF HAMBURG
- MMSI
- 636093220
- IMO
- 9332860
- Call sign
- 5LMY2
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2009 · 17 years old
- Length
- 293 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 71,786
- Deadweight
- 72,982 t
- Capacity
- 6,494 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
- 08:47 · 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
- 14.4 kn · 6 Dec 2024 · 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.