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MSC PRELUDE V
264 metres of container ship · 17 years on the water
formerly NORTHERN PRELUDE
3rd of 6 · 09:24 · 22 March 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:25Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:10Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record0–5Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record1–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC PRELUDE V
- MMSI
- 636022708
- IMO
- 9450325
- Call sign
- A8TL4
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2009 · 17 years old
- Length
- 264 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 47,855
- Deadweight
- 66,727 t
- Capacity
- 4,616 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
- 08:25 · 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
- 20.3 kn · 9 Jan 2026 · off Cape Hatteras, NC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Savannah, GA to Charleston, SC · 22 h 38 m · 3.3 kn average · 18 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.