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MSC DAMLA
294 metres of container ship · 24 years on the water
1st of 2 · 09:39 · 18 March 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:10Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:58Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record3–3Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record6–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC DAMLA
- MMSI
- 353499000
- IMO
- 9250983
- Call sign
- HOCR
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2002 · 24 years old
- Length
- 294 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 74,990
- Deadweight
- 83,661 t
- Capacity
- 6,402 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 71
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
- 07:10 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.1
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
- 18.9 kn · 7 Jan 2026 · off San Juan, PR · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 25 m · 29.0 kn average · 13 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.