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CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt

container ship built in 2013

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5012846 ↗
Source-derived summary

CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. It is named after Alexander von Humboldt.

CMA CGM had originally planned to name the ship after Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama.

Editorial summary

“CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt” enters the record as container ship built in 2013. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alexander, Humboldt and container can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alexander, Humboldt and container.
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Why this record matters

“CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alexander, Humboldt and container provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5012846. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.