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MSC METHONI
403 metres of container ship · 23 years on the water
1st of 9 · 07:45 · 12 December 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:45Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time11:00Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record1–1Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record1–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC METHONI
- MMSI
- 636015404
- IMO
- 9256755
- Call sign
- D5AN2
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 403 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 73,819
- Deadweight
- 90,853 t
- Capacity
- 6,402 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 70
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
- 07:45 · 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.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 15.3 kn · 12 Dec 2024 · 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.