Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
MAERSK BUTON
223 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
1st of 6 · 05:52 · 16 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best05:52Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:04Median of 14 archive runs
Daily race record8–6Wins – losses · 14 starts
Stare-down record2–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK BUTON
- MMSI
- 565971000
- IMO
- 9392925
- Call sign
- 9V7498
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 223 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 35,835
- Deadweight
- 43,123 t
- Capacity
- 3,078 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
- 05:52 · 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.
- Fastest course time
- 05:52 · Box ships, Outbound, open season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 19.6 kn · 16 May 2026 · 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.