Solaris was joined in Turkey by The Eclipse, which arrived from the Caribbean. While the superyacht Eclipse was photographed in Turkish waters in early August, it was once docked at Manhattan's ...

Charl Van Rooy/Superyacht Times Still, Solaris isn’t even the biggest ship Abraomovich owns: That honor goes to the 533-foot-long Eclipse, the second-longest yacht in the world.

FILE PHOTO: The superyacht Eclipse, owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich He teamed up with fellow billionaires Sergei Popov and Andrei Melnichenko to acquire the TMK pipe conglomerate ...

It was Christmas 2011, a year after Roman Abramovich had taken delivery of his new superyacht, Eclipse. But it seemed the oligarch would not be using it over the festive period - records show it ...

The potential tax savings were enormous, with the Eclipse superyacht requiring between $1.5million and $2million to refuel - implying VAT bills of up to $400,000 each time it needed filling.