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KARLSKRONA
318 metres of container ship · 30 years on the water
formerly MAERSK KARLSKRONA
4th of 8 · 07:48 · 13 January 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:14Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:16Median of 23 archive runs
Daily race record6–17Wins – losses · 23 starts
Stare-down record13–16Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- KARLSKRONA
- MMSI
- 636018800
- IMO
- 9085558
- Call sign
- D5RL4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1996 · 30 years old
- Length
- 318 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 81,488
- Deadweight
- 96,103 t
- Capacity
- 7,403 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
- 07:14 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.3
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
- 19.7 kn · 11 Jan 2026 · off Cape May, NJ · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Houston, TX to Galveston, TX · 1 h 24 m · 29.4 kn average · 24 Jan 2026 · to the hour
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.