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MSC GABON
260 metres of container ship · 2 years on the water
4th of 8 · 10:38 · 23 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best10:16Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:42Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record0–4Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record1–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC GABON
- MMSI
- 636024642
- IMO
- 9974539
- Call sign
- 5LTP5
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2024 · 2 years old
- Length
- 260 m
- Beam
- 46 m
- Gross tonnage
- 79,103
- Deadweight
- 101,456 t
- Capacity
- 8,496 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 73
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
- 10:16 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- none
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
- 18.9 kn · 5 Apr 2026 · off Georgetown, SC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Savannah, GA to Charleston, SC · 14 h 21 m · 5.1 kn average · 4 Apr 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.