Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
MSC CATHERINE VI
299 metres of container ship · 25 years on the water
formerly NYK LODESTAR
6th of 9 · 09:37 · 26 May 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:52Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:38Median of 34 archive runs
Daily race record4–30Wins – losses · 34 starts
Stare-down record18–17Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC CATHERINE VI
- MMSI
- 636017173
- IMO
- 9229300
- Call sign
- D5JQ4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2001 · 25 years old
- Length
- 299 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 75,201
- Deadweight
- 77,900 t
- Capacity
- 6,178 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
- 06:52 · 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
- 16.9 kn · 10 Apr 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.