Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0
MSC ALTAMIRA
299 metres of container ship · 14 years on the water
6th of 6 · 14:41 · 9 July 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:54Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:21Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record2–4Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record5–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC ALTAMIRA
- MMSI
- 636015664
- IMO
- 9619426
- Call sign
- D5CC7
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2012 · 14 years old
- Length
- 299 m
- Beam
- 48 m
- Gross tonnage
- 94,659
- Deadweight
- 118,176 t
- Capacity
- 8,762 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
- 07:54 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.8
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
- 15.0 kn · 2 Apr 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.