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MSC ARAINA III
231 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
formerly NORTHERN DEPENDANT
3rd of 7 · 08:15 · 12 May 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:22Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time07:59Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record2–2Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record5–0–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC ARAINA III
- MMSI
- 636024562
- IMO
- 9345984
- Call sign
- A8NY8
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 231 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 36,007
- Deadweight
- 48,100 t
- Capacity
- 3,534 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 79
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
- 07:22 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.8
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
- 16.1 kn · 11 May 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.