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MAERSK COLUMBUS
299 metres of container ship · 19 years on the water
7th of 8 · 12:15 · 1 March 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:14Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:59Median of 27 archive runs
Daily race record5–22Wins – losses · 27 starts
Stare-down record12–5Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK COLUMBUS
- MMSI
- 338525000
- IMO
- 9332987
- Call sign
- WMCU
- 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
- 94,783 t
- Capacity
- 6,696 TEU
- Operator
- MAERSK LINE, LIMITED
- AIS ship type
- 74
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
- 07:14 · 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
- 18.2 kn · 5 Jan 2026 · off Norfolk, VA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 24 m · 29.4 kn average · 31 May 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.