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MAERSK KANSAS
292 metres of container ship · 19 years on the water
5th of 10 · 08:58 · 12 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:56Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:53Median of 50 archive runs
Daily race record12–38Wins – losses · 50 starts
Stare-down record14–16–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK KANSAS
- MMSI
- 368053000
- IMO
- 9311701
- Call sign
- WDD7559
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2007 · 19 years old
- Length
- 292 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 50,442
- Deadweight
- 61,447 t
- Capacity
- 4,650 TEU
- Operator
- Maersk Line Limited
- 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
- 06:56 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.1
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
- 24.8 kn · 1 Jan 2026 · off Cape Hatteras, NC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 23 m · 29.7 kn average · 11 Feb 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.