Iranian yacht Kish


Kish was a royal yacht of the Shah of Iran named after Kish Island. It sailed in the Persian Gulf, in contrast to the bigger but older yacht Chahsevar that was in the Caspian Sea.
Kish was completed in 1970 by Yacht and Bootswerft, West Germany. After the Iranian Revolution, she was reportedly refitted in Bandar Abbas and then used as a training ship. Her fate is unknown although she may be a yacht abandoned on the Raritan River, New Jersey for many years.

Description

The yacht displaced up to at full load.
Kish was long, had a beam of and a draft of. She had a pair of MTU diesel engines that rotated two shaft with a nominal power of. The top speed of the vessel is recorded as. She had a navigation radar working on I-band.