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MSC RACHELE
334 metres of container ship · 21 years on the water
1st of 3 · 08:16 · 30 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:57Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:18Median of 8 archive runs
Daily race record2–6Wins – losses · 8 starts
Stare-down record7–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC RACHELE
- MMSI
- 354712000
- IMO
- 9290282
- Call sign
- 3EAO2
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2005 · 21 years old
- Length
- 334 m
- Beam
- 42 m
- Gross tonnage
- 90,745
- Deadweight
- 124,575 t
- Capacity
- 8,238 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
- 07:57 · 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.
- Slowest and most majestic
- 29:29 · Box ships, Inbound, whale season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 19.4 kn · 1 Mar 2026 · off Norfolk, VA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 23 m · 29.8 kn average · 6 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.