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MSC TAURUS VII
299 metres of container ship · 23 years on the water
formerly ATHENS GLORY
8th of 8 · 13:12 · 19 July 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:54Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time12:08Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record0–3Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record1–5Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC TAURUS VII
- MMSI
- 209615000
- IMO
- 9247766
- Call sign
- 5BFZ5
- Flag
- CY
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 299 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 75,484
- Deadweight
- 81,171 t
- Capacity
- 6,492 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
- 08:54 · 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
- 13.3 kn · 16 Jul 2025 · 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.