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MSC TEXAS
334 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
2nd of 7 · 08:32 · 6 March 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:00Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:32Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record2–3Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record3–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC TEXAS
- MMSI
- 636020494
- IMO
- 9318058
- Call sign
- A8IE9
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 334 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 91,649
- Deadweight
- 123,625 t
- Capacity
- 8,465 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
- 07:00 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.5
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
- 20.7 kn · 31 May 2026 · off Vancouver, BC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Boston, MA to Baltimore, MD · 85 h 35 m · 3.6 kn average · 25 Feb 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.