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MSC LUDOVICA
300 metres of container ship · 23 years on the water
5th of 5 · 10:37 · 16 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:06Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:54Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record0–5–1Wins – losses – ties · 6 starts
Stare-down record1–5Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC LUDOVICA
- MMSI
- 351248000
- IMO
- 9251690
- Call sign
- HPAF
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 300 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 76,490
- Deadweight
- 97,241 t
- Capacity
- 6,732 TEU
- 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
- 08:06 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.2
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
- 21.1 kn · 17 Jun 2026 · off Cape Hatteras, NC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Charleston, SC to Savannah, GA · 8 h 2 m · 9.2 kn average · 6 Apr 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.