The 37.19-metre motor yacht
Nordic Star has been sold by the online auction site, YachtBid. Working in partnership with Hans Visser of De Valk Yacht Brokers, and BVA Auctions, YachtBid successfully completed the sale making it their most expensive yacht sale to date.
Photo: YachtBid.comBuilt in 1978 for actress Virna Lisi,
Nordic Star has had a number of famous owners throughout her history, including icons such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis.
Nordic Star features naval and exterior design by her builder, CRN.
Nordic Star underwent a refit in 2008 and again in 2012. Featuring a classic interior, she can accommodate up-to 10 guests across five spacious staterooms, including a main deck master suite which features a private games room.
InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/04/05
On April 3, Alarm Phone reported the presence of three boats in the Maltese Search and Rescue regions. The people on two of the boats were rescued and taken to Lampedusa. An estimated 110 people on the third boat appear to still be unaccounted for, what has happened?
Several days after three boats were spotted in the Central Mediterranean and those on board two of them were rescued and taken to Lampedusa, questions remain about an estimated 110 people that appear to have been on board a third boat.
Two of the boats spotted, carrying about 160 people in total are confirmed to be safely on Lampedusa, reported Alarm Phone. But the last one appears still to be missing. The organization tweeted a picture of what looked like a small blue single-deck wooden boat accompanied by this text in Italian.
A group of 110 people may be unaccounted for with emergency services NGO Alarm Phone accusing the Armed Forces of Malta of ordering a rescue vessel to leave the scene of the drifting boat the migrants were in.
A Seawatch International spokesperson confirmed that the third boat has not yet been rescued.
A merchant vessel, Nordicstar was in the vicinity of the third boat and had agreed to rescue those onboard. We were informed by the captain of the Nordicstar that a Maltese patrol boat stopped the vessel from rescuing the boat and forced it to leave the scene, the Seawatch spokesperson said.
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