Ice is among the largest private yachts in the world at 295 feet (90 metres) in length. Launched in 2005 as Air, she was completed at the Lürssen yard in Bremen, Germany to the design of Tim Heywood. The yacht was owned by Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov. Created as one of the most environmentally friendly yachts of her time, she incorporates the latest in noise- and vibration-reduction technology as well as exhaust emission control systems.
The ship is equipped with a diesel-electric powered, using eight 842 kW Deutz 16-cylinder generators to provide electric power to two ABB type 5 Azipod electric azimuth thrusters. She can reach a speed of 18 knots. Ice has a large swimming pool on the main deck (stern) in addition to the jacuzzi on the sun deck. She carries a Eurocopter EC135.
Ice won Superyacht of the Year at the 2006 World Superyacht Awards.
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“He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
—Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)