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Enigma formerly ECO and Katana is one of the world's largest
List of motor yachts by length

This is a list of the world's longest motor luxury yachts in order of their length. While length closely correlates with other measures of size such as tonnage , or accommodation area, or displacement , the correspondence is not exact, and the rankings should not be taken as a definitive ranking of size....
 private superyachts.






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Enigma, Mallorca 2006   Front View
Enigma, Mallorca 2006   Rear View
Enigma, Mallorca 2006   Front Side View
Enigma formerly ECO and Katana is one of the world's largest
List of motor yachts by length

This is a list of the world's longest motor luxury yachts in order of their length. While length closely correlates with other measures of size such as tonnage , or accommodation area, or displacement , the correspondence is not exact, and the rankings should not be taken as a definitive ranking of size....
 private superyachts. According to Power and Motoryacht magazine, she is owned by Aidan Barclay, son of the British media tycoon David Barclay
David Barclay

David Barclay may refer to:*Col. David Barclay , 1st Laird of Urie and father of Robert Barclay, the Quaker apologist*Sir David and Frederick Barclay , British businessman...
 who recently purchased the Telegraph newspaper. She was sold after her former owner, Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an United States entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company....
, took delivery of Rising Sun
Rising Sun (yacht)

Rising Sun is a huge yacht designed by the late Jon Bannenberg, and built by Germany L?rssen, is currently co-owned by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, and David Geffen....
, the second largest private yacht in the world. Measuring slightly more than 244 feet (or around 75 metres), Enigma was launched in 1991 and originally christened ECO by its former owner, Mexican mogul
Mogul

Mogul may mean:*Mughal Empire, or any member of its ruling dynasty*Mogul is a powerful business leader also known as a business magnate...
 Emilio Azcárraga
Emilio Azcárraga

Emilio Azc?rraga is the name of three members of the Azc?rraga family. Their business empire, Televisa, is the main television network in Mexico and the largest producer and broadcaster of Spanish Broadcast media around the world....
, founder and former CEO of TV
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 and media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
 conglomerate Televisa
Televisa

Televisa is a Mexico multimedia company, the largest Mass media company in the Spanish language-speaking world. It is a major nternational entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract....
. Enigma is renowned for her design, including a pyramidic superstructure
Superstructure

A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline. This term is applied both to physical structures like buildings, bridges or ships and to conceptual structures as well ....
 surrounded by convex windows, and an agile design that enables her to achieve a maximum speed of 28 knot
Knot (speed)

The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour. Its kn abbreviation is preferred by American and Canadian maritime authorities, and by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; however, the kt and kts abbreviations also are used....
s, although some sources quote 30 knots as her top speed.

She was built by German shipyards Blohm & Voss.

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