Launched yesterday
http://www.lemarin.fr/secteurs-activites/chantiers-navals/20798-piriou-mise-leau-du-navire-de-voyage-yersin

As Clive said: "purposeful"... and because she is a research/survey ship. She will be classed as a "yacht" primarily because she is privately owned - by François Fiat. Same as Cousteau's CALYPSO, shamefully languishing at the same shipyard.

From what I've read elsewhere, she is a yacht.

With this elegant livery she looks really as a lovely "retro-style" yacht!
Very very nice!! :-) :-)

I do not think that she has been anywhere yet. It is my understanding that she has only recently emerged from the builder's yard and is now fitting out.

Nice looking ship. But it seems as if she already has been in rough sea, when loking at parts of her ships side, or do I see wrong?

Fully agree Clive. This is what we call a proper SHIP!
She has an IMO number by the way: it is 9666651.

What a fantastic-looking vessel. Powerful and purposeful, a most impressive yacht.