Photo: Alf van Beem · CC0
MSC ROBERTA
294 metres of container ship · 33 years on the water
4th of 9 · 09:24 · 12 August 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:24Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time11:02Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record1–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC ROBERTA
- MMSI
- 636017006
- IMO
- 9038907
- Call sign
- D5IV9
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1993 · 33 years old
- Length
- 294 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 53,815
- Deadweight
- 67,640 t
- Capacity
- 4,639 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
- 09:24 · 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
- 12.9 kn · 12 Aug 2023 · 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.