Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
MSC DESIREE
299 metres of container ship · 9 years on the water
3rd of 6 · 08:24 · 18 October 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:24Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:58Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC DESIREE
- MMSI
- 255805868
- IMO
- 9745665
- Call sign
- CQZO
- Flag
- PT
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2017 · 9 years old
- Length
- 299 m
- Beam
- 48 m
- Gross tonnage
- 97,805
- Deadweight
- 128,561 t
- Capacity
- 9,408 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 71
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
- 08:24 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.6
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
- 13.4 kn · 18 Oct 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.