MV Savarona  The MV "Savarona" (also sometimes M/Y, for motor yacht) is the presidential yacht of the Republic of Turkey. She was the largest in the world when launched February 28, 1931, and remains, with a length of 136 m (446 ft), one of the world’s longest. Although owned by the government of Turkey, she had been briefly leased out to Turkish businessman Kahraman Sadıkoğlu. However, upon orders of the Turkish Government her lease was terminated and she reverted to the Turkish State.The first time she was used again for an official reception was in March 2015. Named for an African swan living in the Indian Ocean, the ship was designed by Gibbs & Cox for American heiress Emily Roebling Cadwalader, granddaughter of John A. Roebling, engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge. Savarona was the 5th and final vessel built for Mrs. Cadwalader and her husband Richard M. Cadwalader. Their second yacht, Sequoia II, was launched October 27, 1925 and served as a U.S. presidential yacht from 1931 until 1977. The former U.S. presidential yacht Sequoia is now owned by Equator Capital Group and being restored at French & Webb in Belfast Maine. Savarona was built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany at a cost of about $4 million ($57 million in 2010 dollars). Equipped with Sperry gyro-stabilizers, she was described in 1949 by "Jane's Fighting Ships" as "probably the most sumptuously fitted yacht afloat." In 1933, the ship was used as a film set while on the North Sea off the German coast. It appeared prominently in the German science-fiction film "Gold", starring Hans Albers and Brigitte Helm. The movie premiered in 1934. In 1938, the Turkish government acquired the yacht and gifted to ailing leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who spent only six weeks aboard before dying a few months later. Throughout World War II, the ship lay idle in Kanlıca Bay on the Bosporus. In 1951, she was converted to the training ship "Güneş Dil" (English: "Sun Language") and during the next years sailed to many countries. In October 1979, the ship was gutted by fire at the Turkish Naval Academy off Heybeliada Island in the Sea of Marmara. She lay virtually abandoned for ten years.