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MSC RANIA VIII
332 metres of container ship
formerly MSC RANIA
3rd of 10 · 08:40 · 15 October 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:36Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:51Median of 20 archive runs
Daily race record3–19Wins – losses · 22 starts
Stare-down record0–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC RANIA VIII
- MMSI
- 210646000
- IMO
- 9309447
- Call sign
- 5BWW6
- Flag
- CY
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Length
- 332 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- 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
- 07:36 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.2
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
- 16.2 kn · 10 Feb 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.