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MAERSK SHAMS
299 metres of container ship · 11 years on the water
1st of 8 · 07:15 · 19 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:15Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:17Median of 7 archive runs
Daily race record5–2Wins – losses · 7 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK SHAMS
- MMSI
- 563006800
- IMO
- 9726669
- Call sign
- 9V5255
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2015 · 11 years old
- Length
- 299 m
- Beam
- 48 m
- Gross tonnage
- 95,205
- Deadweight
- 117,176 t
- Capacity
- 9,962 TEU
- 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
- 07:15 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.5
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
- 17.9 kn · 29 Jan 2026 · off Los Angeles, CA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Charleston, SC to New York, NY · 50 h 44 m · 10.9 kn average · 19 Feb 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.