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MSC TEMA VIII
272 metres of container ship · 2 years on the water
3rd of 5 · 09:17 · 16 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:13Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:27Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record1–3Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC TEMA VIII
- MMSI
- 636024193
- IMO
- 9983669
- Call sign
- 5LRK9
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2024 · 2 years old
- Length
- 272 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 75,448
- Deadweight
- 87,609 t
- Capacity
- 7,900 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
- 08:13 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.9
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
- 19.2 kn · 17 Jun 2026 · off Wilmington, NC · NOAA archive
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.