Luna (yacht)

Luna was delivered to Russian businessman Roman Abramovich on 10 April 2010.[1] Its exterior was designed by NewCruise of Germany and its interior by Donald Starkey.[2]The yacht's cost has been estimated at over €400m.

Luna was sold to a company related to Roman Abramovich's close friend, Farkhad Akhmedov, for US$360m in April 2014.[5] In October 2014 the yacht was sent to Bremerhaven, Germany, for an extensive refit costing $50m. The yacht was delivered in March 2016 after a 16-month extensive refit.[6]

In October 2017, the yacht entered Port Rashid, Dubai, for maintenance, where it was "effectively impounded" by court order due to an ongoing legal dispute between Farkhad Akhmedov and Tatiana Akhmedov over their divorce settlement. A UK court ruled in April 2018 that the yacht should be transferred to Ms Akhmedov, sending the decision to Dubai for further proceedings.[7]

In the April ruling, the judge concluded that Mr Akhmedov had deliberately attempted to hide his ownership of Luna to evade the enforcement of the judgement.[8]

In June 2018, Dubai's Joint Judicial Committee ruled that the Luna case should be immediately transferred from the Dubai International Finance Centre commercial courts to the civil courts, in a move that was widely interpreted as a major blow to Tatiana Akhmedova and her financial backers.[9]

In August 2018, a Dubai court rejected an appeal filed by Farkhad Akhmedov to lift a freezing order on Luna.[10]

Luna and Eclipse have the only multipurpose custom made lifeboat-limousines in the world at a cost of over $4m each. They are capable of acting as VIP transport and being lifeboats at the same time.

Other features include:

• 10 VIP guest cabins over 100 square metres each, a 20-metre outdoor swimming pool, 9 decks, a large outdoor entertaining area, 8 tenders, 1 mini-submarine, and a crew of 50 persons
• An anti-missile system like Eclipse, bulletproof windows to VR9+ levels, a steel hull over 17.5 cm thick, LRAD guns, bomb-resistant doors, FLIR, and an anti-drone system
• 2 helipads rated over 7.5 tons capacity, which host Akhmedov's Eurocopter EC155 B1 and EC145 (registered M-LVNA and M-LUNA) simultaneously
• 4 stabilizers: 2 quantum-stabilizers and 2 fin-stabilizers
• 7 diesel-electric generators, providing a total output of over 15,000 hp
• 1 stern thruster jet providing dynamic positioning within accuracy of 20 cm
• 1 million liter fuel tank (over 1,000 tons), enabling a cruise of over 9,000 nm at economical speeds of 16-18 knots

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