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MSC ABY
347 metres of container ship · 27 years on the water
9th of 9 · 12:01 · 3 October 2022+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best12:01Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time12:19Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC ABY
- MMSI
- 636020730
- IMO
- 9166778
- Call sign
- 5LAK7
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1999 · 27 years old
- Length
- 347 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 92,198
- Deadweight
- 119,448 t
- Capacity
- 9,578 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
- 12:01 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- -1.2
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
- 10.2 kn · 1 Oct 2022 · 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.