Photo: Patrick Denker from Athens, GA · CC BY 2.0
MSC HONG KONG V
293 metres of container ship · 24 years on the water
formerly MSC HONG KONG
1st of 5 · 07:28 · 4 September 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:28Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:35Median of 8 archive runs
Daily race record3–5Wins – losses · 8 starts
Stare-down record4–2–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC HONG KONG V
- MMSI
- 636021161
- IMO
- 9231810
- Call sign
- 5LCO9
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2002 · 24 years old
- Length
- 293 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 53,453
- Deadweight
- 66,686 t
- Capacity
- 4,992 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
- 07:28 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.4
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
- 15.7 kn · 4 Sept 2025 · 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.