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MSC BASEL V
261 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
formerly RIO CADIZ
2nd of 9 · 08:39 · 5 October 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:39Window timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:46Median of 2 window runs
Daily race record1–2Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC BASEL V
- MMSI
- 255806448
- IMO
- 9360764
- Call sign
- CQEP5
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 261 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 40,807
- Deadweight
- 57,627 t
- Capacity
- 4,300 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
- 08:39 · Window timing, since 29 September 2026
- Archive best
- 09:37 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- 0.0
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
- 18.1 kn · 6 May 2026 · off Baltimore, MD · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Charleston, SC to Savannah, GA · 23 h 5 m · 3.2 kn average · 10 May 2026 · to the hour
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.