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MSC CAROLINA
275 metres of container ship · 21 years on the water
5th of 7 · 09:22 · 15 April 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:25Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:41Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record1–3–1Wins – losses – ties · 5 starts
Stare-down record2–2–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC CAROLINA
- MMSI
- 371475000
- IMO
- 9295397
- Call sign
- 3ECV5
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2005 · 21 years old
- Length
- 275 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 65,834
- Deadweight
- 72,037 t
- Capacity
- 5,606 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 74
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
- 07:25 · 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
- 19.3 kn · 4 Jan 2026 · off Freeport, TX · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Houston, TX to Galveston, TX · 2 h 17 m · 18.0 kn average · 4 Jan 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.