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OOCL IRIS

366 metres of container ship · 1 year on the water

3rd of 7 · 09:15 · 3 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.

Personal best08:02Archive timing · 3.7 km course time

Typical course time09:29Median of 8 archive runs

Daily race record0–8Wins – losses · 8 starts

Stare-down record2–0Wins – losses · all opponents

Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name: OOCL IRIS
MMSI: 477116500
IMO: 9949766
Call sign: VRWK9
Flag: HK
Type: container ship (from the liner schedule)
Class: container
Built: 2025 · 1 years old
Length: 366 m
Beam: 51 m
Gross tonnage: 159,260
Deadweight: 165,509 t
Capacity: 16,828 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.

Her best, by register

Two measurements, kept apart.

Window best: none
Archive best: 08:02 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
Best race score, window: none
Best race score, archive: +1.3

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.

Records held

What she holds.

None.

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed: 20.4 kn · 24 Feb 2026 · off Cape May, NJ · NOAA archive
Fastest leg: New York, NY to Charleston, SC · 42 h 30 m · 13.0 kn average · 24 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.

Identity history

Names and numbers.

Current name: OOCL IRIS
Former names: none on file
MMSIs on file: 477116500
Hull keyed by: IMO 9949766

A ship keeps her IMO number for life and changes her name and MMSI when she is sold or reflagged, so one hull holds every identity she has carried.

What the window has seen

Last observed.

First seen: 18 February 2025
Last seen: 3 June 2026
Passages observed: 12 (6 in, 6 out)
Port calls: Seen here about 5 times a year · every 3 months, like clockwork
Typical call interval: 96 days (median)
Typical port stay: 29 hours (median)
Latest direction: Outbound

Last observed: Jun 3, 2026 · 4:30 am · heading out to sea (3 June 2026, 04:30). A last observed passage is where she was seen, not where she is.

Our estimate, not a schedule: Around December 2026 — based on how often we've seen her, timing uncertain after the 2026 gap · low confidence, a rough guess.