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MSC SILVANA VIII
332 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
formerly MSC SILVANA
10th of 12 · 10:20 · 25 April 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:32Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:29Median of 18 archive runs
Daily race record2–14–2Wins – losses – ties · 18 starts
Stare-down record9–9–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC SILVANA VIII
- MMSI
- 212642000
- IMO
- 9309459
- Call sign
- 5BRU6
- Flag
- CY
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 332 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 94,489
- Deadweight
- 128,560 t
- Capacity
- 8,401 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
- 07:32 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.4
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
- 18.6 kn · 3 Jun 2026 · off Los Angeles, CA · NOAA archive
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.