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MSC ARCHIMIDIS VIII
318 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
3rd of 10 · 08:04 · 29 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:04Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:17Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record1–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC ARCHIMIDIS VIII
- MMSI
- 210623000
- IMO
- 9315379
- Call sign
- 5BVZ6
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 318 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 89,729
- Deadweight
- 108,836 t
- Capacity
- 8,266 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
- 08:04 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.3
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
- 19.3 kn · 17 Jun 2026 · off Honolulu, HI · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Charleston, SC to Savannah, GA · 11 h 42 m · 6.3 kn average · 10 Apr 2026 · to the hour
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.