At 8,862 gross tons, Côte d'Azur is the 37,624th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 306th by tonnage — larger than 65% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
Côte d'Azur was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 440th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 36 vessels to Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, with a median tonnage of 8,522 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 130.0 m overall, Côte d'Azur is 26.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 23.0 m and a draft of 5.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7920534 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1979 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.
Its IMO number, 7920534, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 3×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
