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MSC VANESSA
300 metres of container ship · 23 years on the water
6th of 7 · 09:30 · 28 March 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:30Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:26Median of 7 archive runs
Daily race record0–7Wins – losses · 7 starts
Stare-down record1–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC VANESSA
- MMSI
- 356946000
- IMO
- 9251688
- Call sign
- HOWD
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 300 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 76,512
- Deadweight
- 97,241 t
- Capacity
- 6,732 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 72
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
- 08:30 · 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
- 17.5 kn · 2 Jan 2026 · off Galveston, TX · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 33 m · 26.6 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.