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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 boat
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
Particulars

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.

Her best, by register

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
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.

Records held

What she holds.

None.

Observed extremes

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.