The ferry has been acting as a shuttle for Australian civilians between
Beirut and Cyprus since the evacuation swung into top gear late last week.
The evacuees will be put up in hotels before making their way home on charter flights.
Another 250 Australians reached the Turkish port city of Mersin on a ferry boat earlier in the day.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said the government expects that by late tonight to move up to 6,000 citizens out of Lebanon.
About 25,000 dual Australian-Lebanese citizens were believed to be living in the country at the time the conflict erupted.
Two more planes are scheduled to leave Larnaca airport later today bound for Australia.
An Australian Defence Force C130 will take a load of passengers from the Akrotiri air base south-west of Larnaca, to Turkey, where they have onward travel plans.
More than 2,000 Australians fleeing the war in Lebanon, have come to Cyprus, but nearly a thousand have already flown out on flights chartered by the Australian government.
French troops
French special forces have helped evacuate about 100 foreigners trapped by fighting in southern Lebanon.
At the request of the French embassy in Lebanon, about 10 members of the special forces commandos were flown to the French embassy by helicopter from one of the naval ships taking part in the evacuation operations.
"They are ensuring the security of a convoy of French citizens and foreigners who will leave Nabatiye today for Beirut," a French embassy official said.
Early on Sunday, a group of about 100 people, mostly foreigners, were evacuated from a school in Nabatiye, southern Lebanon, and were en route to the capital Beirut under French military escort.
The convoy of six buses, surrounded by four security vehicles, carried 32 French citizens, 25 Germans, 20 Lebanese and about 20 other people of 14 different nationalities.
They were escorted by security personnel from the French embassy and about 10 men of the Hubert marine commando unit.
A military official in Paris said that they could leave Beirut aboard the French frigate Jean Bart which is bound for Larnaca, Cyprus later in the day.
French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie is also due to travel on the vessel after returning to Lebanon from a two-day visit to Abu Dhabi.
Israelis evacuate north
Israeli officials estimate that up to 50 percent of all residents in the country's north have fled to escape Hizbollah rocket attacks.
"For a week, people have been sitting in shelters and security rooms, so they prefer to leave," said Adi Eldar, mayor of Carmiel, in a report on the Haaretz newspaper's website, www.haaretz.com.
He estimated that a third of all residents in the north had left since the war with Hezbollah erupted and the group began to fire barrages of rockets from Lebanon.
Haim Barbibai, mayor of Kiryat Shmona, near the Lebanese border, said half his town's residents had left.
Officials in Nahariya, which has been hit repeatedly by rockets, also said half the town's residents were gone. More than one million people live in northern Israel.
Many roads are largely empty of traffic and those who have remained stay in bomb shelters or basements as rockets rain down despite waves of Israeli air strikes and ground operations inside Lebanon.
The army estimates more than 1,100 rockets have hit northern Israel, killing 15 Israeli civilians. Twenty Israeli soldiers also have been killed.