''Dubai'' is the name of a

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owned by Sheikh

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, ruler of

Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...

, Vice President of the

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History

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda 2008 2

''Dubai'' was commissioned in 1995 under various project names (''Panhandle'', ''Platinum'', ''Golden Star'') and was built in cooperation with the German shipyards

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. The yacht was initially built for Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei before 1996, but the client stopped the purchase contract the next year. In 2001, she went to the current owner, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The yacht was designed by Andrew Winch, with interior design by Platinum Yachts, she approximately cost $400 million. The ship including the floating dock was transported by the via Turkey to Dubai. The Dubai-based Platinum Yachts FZCO shipyard continued to build the yacht under the former project name ''Platinum'' and handed her over to the owner in 2006. The yacht is kept in front of the northern of the two artificial islands, the private island of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. From 2006 to 2009, the yacht was the largest yacht in the world with a length of 162 meters, but was replaced by ''Eclipse'' and ''Azzam''.

Equipment

The equipment includes a helipad up to a maximum of 9.5 tons, two 10 m long motor boats, a dining room for 90 guests and a 10 m swimming pool. The yacht also has a disco, a cinema, 20 water bikes, a submarine, a lobster tank and a squash court. ''Dubai'' is divided into eight decks and she provides space for up to 88 crew members and 115 guests. The four MTU-20V diesel engines can each deliver 6,301 kW and can give the ship a speed of up to 26

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. With the 1.2 million litre diesel tanks, ''Dubai'' is able to travel 8,500

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