  We report on the discovery of coherent pulsations at a period of 2.9 ms from
the X-ray transient MAXI J0911-655 in the globular cluster NGC 2808. We
observed X-ray pulsations at a frequency of $\sim339.97$ Hz in three different
observations of the source performed with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR during the
source outburst. This newly discovered accreting millisecond pulsar is part of
an ultra-compact binary system characterised by an orbital period of $44.3$
minutes and a projected semi-major axis of $\sim17.6$ lt-ms. Based on the mass
function we estimate a minimum companion mass of 0.024 M$_{\odot}$, which
assumes a neutron star mass of 1.4 M$_{\odot}$ and a maximum inclination angle
of $75^{\circ}$ (derived from the lack of eclipses and dips in the light-curve
of the source). We find that the companion star's Roche-Lobe could either be
filled by a hot ($5\times 10^{6}$ K) pure helium white dwarf with a 0.028
M$_{\odot}$ mass (implying $i\simeq58^{\circ}$) or an old (>5 Gyr) brown dwarf
with metallicity abundances between solar/sub-solar and mass ranging in the
interval 0.065$-$0.085 M$_{\odot}$ (16 < $i$ < 21). During the outburst the
broad-band energy spectra are well described by a superposition of a weak
black-body component (kT$\sim$ 0.5 keV) and a hard cutoff power-law with photon
index $\Gamma \sim$ 1.7 and cut-off at a temperature kT$_e\sim$ 130 keV. Up to
the latest Swift-XRT observation performed on 2016 July 19 the source has been
observed in outburst for almost 150 days, which makes MAXI J0911-655 the second
accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar with outburst duration longer than 100 days.
