MSC UNITED VIII
336 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
formerly YM UNITY
2nd of 5 · 09:09 · 21 October 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:09Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:35Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record0–3Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record1–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC UNITED VIII
- MMSI
- 210610000
- IMO
- 9302619
- Call sign
- 5BSL6
- Flag
- CY
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 336 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 90,922
- Deadweight
- 110,153 t
- Capacity
- 8,208 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 90
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
- 09:09 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.5
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
- 13.2 kn · 21 Oct 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.