Warship Thor got Harrods



In July we told you about 90-meter yacht «Mars», which is being built on the Fincantieri shipyard project London studio H2 Yacht Design specifically for the London department store Harrods. The project cost is estimated at more than 100 million pounds. It turns out the ship was originally intended for a very different owner. According to the newspaper The Guardian, the customer is a luxury yacht Icelandic billionaire Thor Bёrgolfur Bёrgolfsson. "The first rich Iceland" supervised the infamous bank Landsbankí, which collapsed three years ago, leaving investors without their savings. Big grudge against him are British, hide money on the neighboring island, where the conditions for savings, as they seemed to be much better. After the collapse of the business, Project Mars was cast adrift. This yacht Thor Bёrgolfsson designed for themselves. The billionaire owner of the militant middle name (Thor - in Norse mythology the god of thunder and storms) as "godfather" for yachts chose the war god of the Roman pantheon. And the appearance resembles a military ship Dreadnought. The interior painters intended to decorate the portraits of James Bond. «Mars» had to complete your collection of "toys" wealthy playboy Iceland, which already have Jet Challenger and 138-ft (42 m) yacht «Element» by Cantieri di Pisa. But soon they could be auctioned off to compensate for the loss of defrauded investors.

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