This superyacht is 140 meters long or 459 feet and she has over 10, 000 gross tons
-she's one of the largest super yachts ever made and her name is motor yacht "Scheherazade" -
she is currently at the center of a mystery - no she's not disappeared - she didn't sink-
the mystery surrounding this massive vessel is simply this -who is the owner ? when she
arrived in Gibraltar in 2020 on a her maiden voyage after leaving her builders in Germany
she had no name plate or port of registry on the stone - a very unusual occurrence for a brand new
vessel - every discerning billionaire collecting his new toy wants to have the name emblazoned on
the rear, right? - not this boat although the vessel was built by Lürssen she is not listed
on their website of yachts built by them even though they have a comprehensive list of yachts
that they have created -the interior was probably designed by "Serretti Interior Designs" - i say
probably because on Serretti's website even though there is a list of yachts the design house has
worked on - including other very secret projects such as "m/y Amadea", there is only a mention
of an unnamed 140 meter yacht on the list - authorities who are investigating Russian-owned
yachts including "Scheherazade" which is currently in "Marina de Carrara" in Italy
cannot even decipher who the owner of the vessel is - such as the level of secrecy the vessel has a
cover to obscure the nameplate which is possibly what we saw in the video footage and while she
has been in the port in Italy they have built a fence to obscure the vessel from passersby
something unheard of in this port the name Scheherazade is associated with the middle
east as it is the fictional name of the wife of a sultan and the narrator of the tales
in the "Arabian Night Story" so maybe the vessel is owned by a middle eastern owner right
however "Scheherazade" is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888
so it also has a Russian connection - president Putin spent a lot of time in "Sochi" in Russia
over the last 2 years during the pandemic and the vessel visited the black sea city in 2020
and 2021 at the same time Putin was there a rumor in the industry which has been backed up by a
former crew member is that the yacht has 2 crews a European one and a Russian one that comes on
whenever the owner uses the vessel the ex-crew member even supplied examples of 2 crew lists
when people on the list were contacted one said they had worked on board
but most people on the list denied working there and one even denied he had worked at
sea for the last 25 years - A former crew member told me of his experience being recruited by
the vessel he said during the recruitment he had to sign a non-disclosure agreement before
the process even began then they asked him to supply a 60-second video introducing himself
after he submitted it they came back to him and said that he needed to re-record it but not to
mention any of the vessels he'd ever worked on before -so secrecy is the management company for
this vessel that i wasn't even able to establish who it was to ask them for a statement when yachts
are in the build process they're given a project name right Scheherazade's project name was project
"Lightning" but before it was even completed there was another ship being built by "Lürssen" called
"Project Thunder" "Thunder" and Lightning" the sister ship to "Scheherazade" "m/y Crescent" is
very similar in construction however it has a black hole and "Scheherazade" has a white hole
and both vessels are shrouded in mystery and the owners of each vessel are unknown on the
"Lürssen" website "m/y Crescent" when you go to interior design it says confidential but it is
on their website at least whereas "Scheherazade" is not even mentioned - sources have suggested
"Scheherazade" is linked with Igor Sechin head of the state-owned oil company "Rosneft" and
described by "The Guardian Newspaper" as the second most important man in Russia
-the captain of the vessel who refused to name the owner said however he was not on the sanctions
list - however if "Sechin" were the owner he is on the sanctions list so will investigators
ever establish who the owner actually is and i don't mean the name that will be on the paperwork
because that would probably be a shell company in the "Marshall islands" it's likely that once
they've made it through the paperwork of gel companies and trusts and management companies
they'll end up with a name not too far from the person they're looking for
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