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MSC SHIRLEY
188 metres of container ship · 26 years on the water
4th of 6 · 09:13 · 4 June 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:24Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:03Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record0–5Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record2–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC SHIRLEY
- MMSI
- 636017022
- IMO
- 9224049
- Call sign
- D5IY3
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2000 · 26 years old
- Length
- 188 m
- Beam
- 30 m
- Gross tonnage
- 23,890
- Deadweight
- 32,106 t
- Capacity
- 2,078 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
- 08:24 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.1
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
- 14.9 kn · 2 Mar 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.