Photo: Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
MSC PETRA
300 metres of container ship · 25 years on the water
formerly DIAPOROS
6th of 7 · 11:31 · 30 November 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:46Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:33Median of 14 archive runs
Daily race record2–12Wins – losses · 14 starts
Stare-down record7–7Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC PETRA
- MMSI
- 636014644
- IMO
- 9222302
- Call sign
- A8VP5
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2001 · 25 years old
- Length
- 300 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 73,157
- Deadweight
- 87,837 t
- Capacity
- 6,627 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 74
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
- 06:46 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.6
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
- 17.3 kn · 25 May 2023 · off Charleston, SC · national archive 2021-25
- Fastest leg
- Houston, TX to Galveston, TX · 1 h 43 m · 24.0 kn average · 9 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.