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MSC UBERTY VIII
333 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
formerly YM UBERTY
1st of 7 · 07:08 · 10 February 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:08Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:42Median of 15 archive runs
Daily race record5–7–3Wins – losses – ties · 15 starts
Stare-down record12–6–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC UBERTY VIII
- MMSI
- 636013689
- IMO
- 9337444
- Call sign
- A8OR4
- Flag
- CY
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 333 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 90,507
- Deadweight
- 103,614 t
- Capacity
- 8,241 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
- 07:08 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- none
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.
- Best race score
- +2.3 · Box ships, Inbound, whale season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 16.3 kn · 10 Feb 2025 · 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.