Abramovich's new superyacht Eclipse is launched
- Wed, 17 Jun 2009
Roman Abramovich - oil oligarch, football supremo, and now undisputed king of the superyachts.
His latest boat, Eclipse, rolled down the slipway at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg last week. You can see photos of her in Motor Boats Monthly's gallery .
The superyacht - the world's largest - cost a reported £288m to build, and features two helipads, a cinema, a sports complex and a disco.
And just in case former employee Jose Mourinho, with whom the Russian enjoys a tense relationship, is ever nearby, Eclipse sports a German-built missile defence system.
At more than 160-metres long, the boat is bigger than the ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed's superyacht, which was previously the world's largest.
Annual running costs of £30m must be enough to make even Abramovich wince, especially after seeing his fortune dip a staggering £24bn last year, according to reports.


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