''Aviva'' is a length motor yacht. She is the fourth yacht named ''Aviva'' built for

Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...

-based British businessman Joe Lewis, and replaces the 68m Aviva (III). Like her predecessor, ''Aviva'' was designed by

Reymond Langton Reymond Langton Design is a design studio specialising in the interior decoration of superyachts. It was founded by Pascale Reymond and Andrew Langton in 2001, and was originally based in London. The company headquarters and principal design stud ...

, and built by

Lemwerder Lemwerder () is a municipality in the district of Wesermarsch, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the left bank of the Weser, approximately east of Oldenburg, and northwest of the centre of Bremen. Since April 2021, Lemwerder has been governed ...

-based German builder

Abeking & Rasmussen Abeking & Rasmussen (A&R) is a shipyard situated in Lemwerder, near Bremen in the Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. The shipyard is on the left bank of the Weser, River Weser, and currently comprises five production halls with associated work ...

. The

hull Hull may refer to: Structures * The hull of an armored fighting vehicle, housing the chassis * Fuselage, of an aircraft * Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds * Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a sea-going craft * Submarine hull Ma ...

of the ship was built at Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft and launched in 2015. She was launched in 2017, has the

IMO Number The IMO number of the International Maritime Organization is a generic term with two distinct applications: * the IMO ship identification number is a unique ship identifier; or, * the IMO company and registered owner identification number is u ...

1012957, and the

MMSI Number A Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) is effectively a maritime object's international ''maritime telephone number'', a temporarily assigned UID issued by that object's current flag state (unlike an IMO number, which is a permanent global UID ...

319111300. ''Aviva'' acts as Lewis's floating home and office, and features an indoor, full-sized

padel tennis Padel () is a racket sport typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. It has the same scoring system as tennis, but different rules, strokes, and technique. The balls are similar but softer. ...

court.

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