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MSC ALICANTE
270 metres of container ship · 15 years on the water
2nd of 3 · 08:01 · 11 May 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:01Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:11Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record2–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC ALICANTE
- MMSI
- 256567000
- IMO
- 9480174
- Call sign
- 9HA5884
- Flag
- PT
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2011 · 15 years old
- Length
- 270 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 61,870
- Deadweight
- 74,477 t
- Capacity
- 5,550 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 72
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
- 08:01 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.8
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
- 22.1 kn · 31 May 2026 · off Havana, Cuba · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 28 m · 28.3 kn average · 29 Mar 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.