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MAERSK GATESHEAD
292 metres of container ship · 24 years on the water
1st of 3 · 08:15 · 26 July 2022+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:35Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:43Median of 13 archive runs
Daily race record3–10Wins – losses · 13 starts
Stare-down record4–12Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK GATESHEAD
- MMSI
- 563076200
- IMO
- 9235543
- Call sign
- 9V6210
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2002 · 24 years old
- Length
- 292 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 50,686
- Deadweight
- 61,609 t
- Capacity
- 4,544 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
- 07:35 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.4
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
- 19.7 kn · 10 Mar 2026 · off Port Everglades, FL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Savannah, GA to Port Everglades, FL · 36 h 21 m · 10.1 kn average · 20 Jun 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.