MV Savarona
Savarona at quay on the Bosphorus in 2014
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 United States
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| Name: | Savarona |
| Owner: | Emily Roebling Cadwallader |
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| Yard number: | 490 |
| Launched: | February 28, 1931 |
| Completed: | March 1931 |
| In service: | 1931–1938 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Republic of Turkey |
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 Turkey
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| Name: | Savarona |
| Owner: | Republic of Turkey |
| Completed: | Rebuilt 1989–1992/Modernized and Retrofitted as State Yacht 2014 |
| In service: | 1938–1979, 1992–present |
| Status: | State Yacht |
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| Tonnage: | 4,646 GT |
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| Beam: | 53 ft (16 m) |
| Height: | 52 ft (16 m) |
| Draft: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 2 × 3,600 hp (2.7 MW) diesel |
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| Capacity: | 34 |
| Crew: | 44 |
The MV Savarona (also sometimes M/Y, for motor yacht) is the Presidential yacht of the Republic of Turkey reserved for the use of the President of Turkey. She was the largest in the world when launched in 1931, and remains, with a length of 136 m (446 ft), one of the world’s longest. Although owned by the government of Turkey, she had been briefly leased out to Turkish businessman Kahraman Sadıkoğlu. However, upon orders of the Turkish Government her lease was terminated and she reverted to the Turkish State. The MV Savarona is now the State Yacht of the Republic of Turkey and reserved for the use of the President. The first time she was used again for an official reception was in March 2015.
Named for an African swan living in the Indian Ocean, the ship was designed by Gibbs & Cox in 1931 for American heiress Emily Roebling Cadwallader, granddaughter of John A. Roebling, engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge. The ship was built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany. She cost about $4 million ($57 million in 2010 dollars). Equipped with Sperry gyro-stabilizers, she was described in 1949 by Jane's Fighting Ships as "probably the most sumptuously fitted yacht afloat."
In 1933, the ship was used as a filmset while on the North Sea off the German coast. It appeared prominently in the German science-fiction film Gold, starring Hans Albers and Brigitte Helm. The movie premiered in 1934.
In 1938, the Turkish government gifted the yacht for ailing leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who spent only six weeks aboard before dying a few months later.
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