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MSC MARIA ELENA
336 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
1st of 4 · 09:07 · 16 September 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:43Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:20Median of 11 archive runs
Daily race record2–9Wins – losses · 11 starts
Stare-down record12–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC MARIA ELENA
- MMSI
- 355919000
- IMO
- 9304423
- Call sign
- 3EGR2
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 336 m
- Beam
- 46 m
- Gross tonnage
- 107,849
- Deadweight
- 132,035 t
- Capacity
- 9,178 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 70
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
- 07:43 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.9
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
- 15.0 kn · 20 Jul 2025 · off Charleston, SC · national archive 2021-25
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.