This is super yacht news with eSysman - hi guys welcome back to the channel it is Tuesday the 29th
of March and we have breaking news in the first super yacht to be arrested in British waters- it's
a 50 million dollar super yacht - it was detained in British waters -she's the first superyacht to
be arrested so far by the United Kingdom so the vessel is "motoryacht Phi" - it's a 59 meter
or 191 foot super yacht built by "Royal Hussman" in the Netherlands -vessel was delivered in 2021
and her owner who is still unknown -well at least to us- is believed to be a Russian national .
so the BBC announced that the vessel had been seized
they use the word seized but in a quote from Grant Shapps who is the transport secretary
he said the vessel is being held and won't be going anywhere -so it's an important
distinction to make - as we've discussed in the past an arrested vessel means it's been detained
a seized vessel means it's been the actual ownership of the vessel is being seized and
and it's been taken over by the authorities - another thing that makes me think it
was just a misuse of the phrase as a further quote in that article said "we've impounded it
and denied it the ability to go anywhere right now " so it's not seized it's been arrested the vessel's
actually been in London in "Canary Warf" for over 3 months now i believe - but the the reason
why it's only just been arrested is because,
-on 13th of March- they realised that it is actually potentially owned by
a Russian so Mr. Shapp said that it belongs to a Russian oligarch with close connections to
Russian president Vladimir Putin although he said the individual is currently not on any sanctions lists -
the national crime agency said the owner was "deliberately well hidden" it added that the company
the ship is registered to is based in the island of Saint Kitts and Nevis but it carried a Maltese
flag to hide its origins now i'm a little bit confused by this and i think this is maybe
this is a mis this maybe this has been translated incorrectly - but i think that statement is
actually factually incorrect because according to data held by AIS the vessel is registered in Malta
also on AIS again if you look at the data the call sign of any vessel the first three
digits denotes the country of registration and "motor yacht Phi" has 9HA which is a Maltese
registration and also on the stern it says Valletta in big letters so there's another
more obvious giveaway there so yeah that's quite an interesting one but that's the news anyway
there is a first vessel to be seized in UK waters which is quite significant turn of events - we'll
see if any more come along soon okay so we'll move on to another story - this one's quite an
interesting one actually -motor yacht A we've talked about motor yacht A on various occasions
and the vessel was in the Seychelles and then it went dark on AIS and then it turned up a week or
so later in Dubai- it was seeing off- first scene of the coast of Oman then it it actually docked in
Dubai and sources told me that the vessel was looking for to register with a new flag state
and if you remember going back to "sailing yacht A" which was arrested in in Trieste in Italy
the vessel was deregistered by the "Isle of Man" so both vessels were registered in the "Isle of Man"
and at the same time i believe both vessels - once Andre Melnichenko the owner of both vessels
was placed on the sanctions list- -both of his vessels were deregistered meaning that
they had no flag state and you are not allowed to sail without a flag state
so even despite that obviously "motor yacht A" was already in Seychelles i believe when this happened
they sailed to Dubai looking for a new flag- now what's interesting about this -where I'm
going with this story is sources have told me that "motor yacht A" has applied for a Chinese flag so they've
applied to Hong Kong to become a Chinese flag vessel what i'm told is that the the insurance
company "Ping An" in Hong Kong will offer insurance to any yacht that registers with a Chinese flag
so "motor yacht A" potentially and "sailing yacht A" potentially will have Chinese flags
soon and speaking of Chinese flags i also understand that "motor yacht Nord" has applied
for the same one - also "motor yacht A" is also currently heading i believe to Vladivostok
-okay and the last story tonight guys is this is ones that you might be able to help
me with - "vessel Ocean Victory"- i've been looking for ocean victory for a while it's been it went
dark almost a month ago i think it was 28 or 29 days ago and this is a big boat to hide it's a
140 meter boat which is 460 feet and it is eight and a half thousand gross tons-
it was built by Fincantieri in Italy in 2014-it's actually the sister ship to "motor yacht Serene"
it's a huge thing - it's a little bit bigger than serene serene is 135 i believe
but yeah this vessel's disappeared it was also in the Seychelles- last seen in the Seychelles
and it has disappeared and i believe also it possibly may be heading to Vladivostok it might
already be there because it's been a month now - but if you've seen that vessel -be sure to
let me know - it's gotta be somewhere right- it's hard to hide 140 meters superyacht
-all right guys- it's a quick one tonight thanks very much for watching if you've got
any information about any of these vessels or any other vessels
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