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Corn-Fed
MAERSK IOWA
292 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
1st of 3 · 08:11 · 21 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:41Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:13Median of 56 archive runs
Daily race record13–40–3Wins – losses – ties · 56 starts
Stare-down record27–15–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK IOWA
- Nickname
- Corn-Fed
- MMSI
- 367606000
- IMO
- 9298686
- Call sign
- KABL
- Flag
- US
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 292 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 50,686
- Deadweight
- 61,454 t
- Capacity
- 4,650 TEU
- Operator
- Maersk Line, Limited
- AIS ship type
- 79
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
- 06:41 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.0
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
- 21.9 kn · 6 May 2026 · off Port Everglades, FL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Houston, TX to Galveston, TX · 1 h 28 m · 28.1 kn average · 11 May 2026 · to the hour
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.