L'Estuaire

At 3,705 gross tons, L'Estuaire is the 49,038th 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 448th by tonnage — larger than 49% 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.

France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which L'Estuaire is the 190th 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 10 ferrys flying the France flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.

L'Estuaire was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 1,951st 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 34 vessels to Piriou Group, with a median tonnage of 437 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 78.0 m overall, L'Estuaire is 26.0 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9475375 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2007 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.