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MSC RITA
324 metres of container ship · 21 years on the water
1st of 2 · 06:54 · 8 November 2022+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:54Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:18Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record2–3Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record3–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC RITA
- MMSI
- 371245000
- IMO
- 9289116
- Call sign
- 3EBW6
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from its name)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2005 · 21 years old
- Length
- 324 m
- Beam
- 42 m
- 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
- 06:54 · 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
- 16.5 kn · 25 May 2022 · 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.