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MSC DORADO VIII
334 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
formerly MSC D0RAD0 VIII, TSC DORADO
4th of 10 · 08:57 · 6 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:27Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:25Median of 5 archive runs
Daily race record0–5Wins – losses · 5 starts
Stare-down record1–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC DORADO VIII
- MMSI
- 636024993
- IMO
- 9301495
- Call sign
- 5LVH4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 334 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 89,941
- Deadweight
- 102,759 t
- Capacity
- 8,238 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
- 08:27 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.8
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
- 20.9 kn · 31 Jan 2026 · off Cape Hatteras, NC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 23 m · 29.7 kn average · 14 May 2026
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.