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MSC KATYA R
281 metres of container ship · 24 years on the water
2nd of 6 · 08:10 · 13 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:42Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:54Median of 13 archive runs
Daily race record4–8–1Wins – losses – ties · 13 starts
Stare-down record6–6–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC KATYA R
- MMSI
- 636016435
- IMO
- 9227302
- Call sign
- D5GE4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2002 · 24 years old
- Length
- 281 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 45,803
- Deadweight
- 63,259 t
- Capacity
- 4,112 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
- 07:42 · 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
- 21.2 kn · 10 Mar 2026 · off Cape Hatteras, NC · NOAA archive
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.