L'Austral

At 10,700 gross tons, L'Austral is the 34,898th 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 1.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 385th by tonnage — larger than 24% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.

France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which L'Austral is the 131st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (313 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,161 GT. Browse every ship flagged France.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 cruise ships flying the France flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

L'Austral was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 1,734th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 142.1 m overall, L'Austral is 56.0 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 18.0 m and a draft of 4.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9502518 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2007 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9502518, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.