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MSC CHICAGO
336 metres of container ship · 21 years on the water
8th of 9 · 09:48 · 23 May 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:28Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:47Median of 13 archive runs
Daily race record0–13Wins – losses · 13 starts
Stare-down record7–8–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC CHICAGO
- MMSI
- 218650000
- IMO
- 9290555
- Call sign
- DFDG2
- Flag
- DE
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2005 · 21 years old
- Length
- 336 m
- Beam
- 45 m
- Gross tonnage
- 107,849
- Deadweight
- 133,078 t
- Capacity
- 9,178 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
- 08:28 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.1
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
- 20.1 kn · 7 Jun 2026 · off Caucedo · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 24 m · 29.4 kn average · 21 May 2026
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.