Saddam Hussein’s super yacht, the ‘Basra Breeze’ was recently put on sale with an asking price of some US$30 million.
Brokers now say that the outdated vessel would need an overall costing as much as its asking price. The yacht, which was built at a Danish shipyard, under signed secrecy agreements to prevent Iraqis from learning about their leader’s extravagance, was launched in 1981. However, the yacht is outfitted with garish taste, “blue carpets clash with salmon-pink canopy in the master bedroom”. The vessel was originally named ‘Qadisiyah Saddam’, after an historical Arab victory but was renamed ‘Ocean Breeze’ after Saddam’s overthrow. It was named ‘Basra Breeze’ after the vessel was returned to ownership in Iraq. However the Iraqi Government has said it has no use for the yacht, which was built with an 83-metre secret passage running through the entire length of the hull, to allow the paranoid leader to escape on an on-board fast patrol boat, if ever attached.
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