At 30,985 gross tons, Méditerranée is the 18,715th 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 5.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 52nd by tonnage — larger than 94% 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 Méditerranée is the 71st 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 1 is larger by tonnage.
Méditerranée was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 138th 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 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 157.0 m overall, Méditerranée is 53.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 27.4 m and a draft of 6.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8705395 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.
Its IMO number, 8705395, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 3×3 + 9×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
