Photo: Jens Hilligsøe · CC BY 2.0
SPIRIT OF AUCKLAND
254 metres of container ship · 19 years on the water
1st of 5 · 09:43 · 27 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:32Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:49Median of 34 archive runs
Daily race record13–21Wins – losses · 34 starts
Stare-down record1–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- SPIRIT OF AUCKLAND
- MMSI
- 232013516
- IMO
- 9360752
- Call sign
- MCMA3
- Flag
- IM
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2007 · 19 years old
- Length
- 254 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 41,483
- Deadweight
- 53,124 t
- Capacity
- 3,752 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
- 06:32 · 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.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 18.9 kn · 24 Jun 2026 · off Cape May, NJ · 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.