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Largest in this registry
#16,900
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#34
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 2 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Côte des Flandres is a ro-ro passenger ferry owned by Eurotunnel and operated by DFDS Seaways France between Dover and Calais, the ship was the second to be built for SeaFrance in 2005, she entered service with SeaFrance in March 2005 and finished with SeaFrance in January 2012 when the company was liquidated.
She was sold to Euro-Transmanche 3 BE (Eurotunnel) in July 2012 and was renamed Berlioz, re-entering service between Dover and Calais in August 2012 with MyFerryLink. She was further renamed Côte des Flandres for service on the Dover to Calais route with DFDS Seaways France starting in early 2016.
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 33,796 gross tons, Côte des Flandres is the 16,900th 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 5.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 34th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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 Côte des Flandres is the 67th 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 none is larger than Côte des Flandres.
Côte des Flandres was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 460th 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 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 186.0 m overall, Côte des Flandres is 82.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 27.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9305843 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 9305843, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 8×3 + 4×2 = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS Mega Victoria | 1988 | 34,384 |
| Suzuran | 2012 | 34,326 |
| MS Mega Smeralda | 1985 | 33,829 |
| Côte des Flandres (this ship) | 2005 | 33,796 |
| MS Stena Saga | 1981 | 33,750 |
| Finnfellow | 2000 | 33,724 |
| Elyros |
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.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Côte des Flandres on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Charles01, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 1998 |
| 33,635 |