Saddam's Yacht - again for sale

7:39 PM Fri 5 Nov 2010 GMT

'Ocean Breeze' Franck Gicquiaud

Iraq's Ministry of transportation has the luxury yacht Ocean Breeze, once owned by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, and now back in Iraqi waters, up for sale, according to news outlet ITN. The yacht has a very interesting history. Saddam Hussein ordered it in 1981, and it was built in Helsingor, the city of Shakespeare's Hamlet, by Danish shipyard Helsingor Vaerft. But, occupied with the Iran/Iraq war, Saddam never took delivery of it. However, he named it Qadissiyat Saddam , after the first ever battle between the Arabs and the Persians in 627AD which ended the Persian dominance of Iraq ...

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by ITN/Sail-World Cruising