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MSC HOUSTON V
267 metres of container ship · 16 years on the water
1st of 5 · 07:22 · 11 October 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:22Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:29Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record2–1Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record2–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC HOUSTON V
- MMSI
- 255803470
- IMO
- 9463281
- Call sign
- CQRC
- Flag
- PT
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2010 · 16 years old
- Length
- 267 m
- Beam
- 35 m
- Gross tonnage
- 44,768
- Deadweight
- 58,321 t
- Capacity
- 4,432 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
- 07:22 · 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
- 15.9 kn · 11 Oct 2024 · 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.