Photo: Alf van Beem · CC0
MAERSK KENTUCKY
292 metres of container ship · 27 years on the water
4th of 6 · 08:38 · 23 January 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:07Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:21Median of 37 archive runs
Daily race record13–24Wins – losses · 37 starts
Stare-down record23–21Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK KENTUCKY
- MMSI
- 563073800
- IMO
- 9193240
- Call sign
- 9V6172
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1999 · 27 years old
- Length
- 292 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 50,698
- Deadweight
- 61,987 t
- Capacity
- 4,658 TEU
- 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
- 06:07 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.0
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
- 18.8 kn · 10 May 2023 · 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.