Characteristics

  • Length overall: 120.50 m
  • Beam: 20.60 m
  • Depth: 12.80 m
  • Draught: 6.963 m
  • Displacement: 10380 tonnes
  • Cargo capacity: 2500 tonnes or 5600 m3
  • Approximately 50 standard 20 ft containers
  • Cold rooms and refrigerated containers
  • Gross tonnage: 9403 UMS
  • Net tonnage: 2820 UMS
  • Classification: I 3/3 special vessel/replenishment vessel and oceanographic research vessel, ACA, AUT PORT, F, RMC-V, ALM (side gantry, stern crane, tandem double crane), ALS (stern gantry)
  • Diesel capacity:
    • Tank capacity: 1600 tonnes;
    • Freight fuel (GO): 1000 CBM
  • Range: 60 days at sea
  • Crew: 48
  • Scientists, technicians and hydrographers: 110 passengers
  • Average operating speed during passages and cruises: 13.5 knots
  • Freshwater ballast: 1100 tonnes
  • Wastewater ballast: 488 tonnes
  • Construction: Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre (delivered 12 May 1995)
  • Owner: GIE MD II (TAAF and LDAS)
  • Operator:  Louis Dreyfus Austral Seas (LDAS)
  • Charterers: France’s Antarctic Overseas Territories (TAAF) for logistics 120 days per year and IFREMER (Technopôle Brest Iroise, CS10070, 29280 Plouzané France) for oceanography 217 days per year.
  • Flag: RIF
  • Type: Replenishment vessel and oceanographic research vessel
  • Call Sign: FNIN
  • IMO number: 9050814