# Saddam's Yacht For Sale

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**Created:** [December 24, 2007, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/saddams-yacht-for-sale/240 "2007-12-24T06:48:33Z")\
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The last of Saddam Hussein’s water toys, a 269-foot steel-hulled  
mega-yacht with bullet-proof glass, a getaway boat and a helicopter  
pad, has appeared as a listing in a London yacht brokerage. The asking  
price: a cool $34 million.

[img][http://www.madmariner.com/files/images/SADDAM\_YACHT\_FOR\_SALE\_P1v1.jpg](http://www.madmariner.com/files/images/SADDAM_YACHT_FOR_SALE_P1v1.jpg)" border=“0” alt=“Caption TK?: BURGESS YACHTS” hspace=“7” vspace=“7” width=“350” height=“245” align=“right” /\>\<span class="inline\_right]\<span class=“credit” style="width: 348px]BURGESS YACHTS\</span\>\<span class=“caption” style="width: 348px]\<strong\>The Ocean Breeze moored in Nice. \</strong\>\</span\>\</span\>Tales  
of riches belonging to the late Iraqi dictator, who was executed last  
year after being convicted of crimes against humanity, flowed steadily  
out of Iraq in the days following the U.S.-led invasion that ousted him  
from the throne in 2003. Among these holdings were no fewer than three  
large motoryachts.

The best-known vessel was the Al Mansour (“The Victory”),  
which was targeted by the American Navy during the invasion and struck  
repeatedly with precision-guided bombs – eight direct hits – in the  
port of Umm Qasr in Basra (see photo). A smaller yacht was sunk up the  
Tigris river, near Baghdad.

But the fate of a third boat was not widely known – until it  
appeared for sale on the website of the Burgess Yachts brokerage in  
London last month (see link).

[http://www.madmariner.com/vessels/story/SADDAM\_YACHT\_FOR\_SALE\_122107\_VX](http://www.madmariner.com/vessels/story/SADDAM_YACHT_FOR_SALE_122107_VX)

2003 photo:

[img][http://www.madmariner.com/files/images/SADDAM\_YACHT\_FOR\_SALE\_P3v1.jpg](http://www.madmariner.com/files/images/SADDAM_YACHT_FOR_SALE_P3v1.jpg)" border=“0” width=“350” height=“221” /\>