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MAERSK CHICAGO
299 metres of container ship · 19 years on the water
8th of 10 · 10:17 · 12 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:51Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:23Median of 35 archive runs
Daily race record7–27–1Wins – losses – ties · 35 starts
Stare-down record21–13Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK CHICAGO
- MMSI
- 338408000
- IMO
- 9332975
- Call sign
- WMCS
- Flag
- US
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2007 · 19 years old
- Length
- 299 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 74,642
- Deadweight
- 84,775 t
- Capacity
- 6,696 TEU
- Operator
- Maersk Line, Limited
- AIS ship type
- 79
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
- 06:51 · 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
- 22.7 kn · 24 Jun 2026 · off Miami, FL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 23 m · 29.6 kn average · 19 Jun 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.