Savarona
1931
(Albatros AL-122)
- Type: Yacht
- Displacement: 4,646 tons
- Dimensions: 447(oa) 408 (wl) x 52 ft.
- Machinery: = 21 knots
- Passengers: 34
- Crew: 55
- Builder: Blohm & Voss GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, 1931
- Service: Largest private yacht in the world at time of construction
and still fourth largest today. Built for the American heiress Emily Roebling Cadwallader, whose family money came from building the Brooklyn and Golden Gate bridges. Purchased as a state yacht of Turkey for the use of Kemal Ataturk, 1938. Later used as a training vessel. Badly damaged by fire in 1979. Rebuilt starting in 1989 for Turkish shipowner Kahraman Sadikoglu, who took out a 50-year lease on her. Still in use today as a charter yacht.
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