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Operator on record: 2007-2013: Brittany Ferries
Photo: Antramir · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#25,061
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#13,970
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Cotentin is a ROPAX ferry owned and operated by Brittany Ferries between Poole and Cherbourg from January until March 2021 and then Portsmouth and Le Havre from March 2021 until June 2021. She previously operated for Brittany Ferries between 2007 and 2013 between Poole–Cherbourg before being chartered to Stena Line as Stena Baltica serving the route between Gdynia and Karlskrona. The vessel was constructed by Aker Finnyards in Finland and delivered to Brittany Ferries on 9 November 2007. Cotentin sails under the French flag and is registered in Morlaix. The ship's gross tonnage is 22,308.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 22,542 gross tons, Cotentin is the 25,061st 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 3.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 13,970th by tonnage — larger than 72% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Cotentin is the 302nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 136 are larger by tonnage.
Cotentin was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 817th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 27 vessels to Aker Finnyards, with a median tonnage of 34,231 GT, delivered between 1998 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 165.0 m overall, Cotentin is 50.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 26.8 m and a draft of 6.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9364978 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.
Its IMO number, 9364978, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 6×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 7×2 = 168 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Mevlana | 1984 | 22,556 |
| Lila II | 2012 | 22,549 |
| Rainbow Quest | 2011 | 22,549 |
| Cotentin (this ship) | 2007 | 22,542 |
| Hong Wang 2 | 1985 | 22,531 |
| Qing Ping Hai | 1985 | 22,531 |
| Furkan |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.

Independence of the Seas
2008 · 155,889 GT · The Bahamas

Freedom of the Seas
2006 · 154,407 GT · The Bahamas
Liberty of the Seas
2007 · 154,407 GT · The Bahamas

Color Magic
2007 · 75,156 GT · Norway

MS Galaxy I
2006 · 48,915 GT · Sweden

Baltic Princess
2008 · 48,915 GT · Finland

Oscar Wilde
2007 · 36,249 GT · Cyprus
Viking XPRS
2007 · 35,918 GT · Estonia
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Cotentin on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Antramir, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1985 |
| 22,531 |