The Journal · Ownership

The owners with more than one

Most names on the register appear once. These are the ones that appear more than once.

37 of 175 names on the register are linked to more than one hull, accounting for 83 vessels between them.

The numbersIn full
OwnerHullsCombined valueFlagship
Jan Koum5$790MMoonrise
Eric Schmidt4$250MWhisper
Roman Abramovich3$1.3BEclipse
Sultan of Oman3$1BFulk Al Salamah
Gabe Newell3$650MLeviathan
Larry Ellison3$239MMusashi
Andrey Melnichenko2$750MSailing Yacht A
Eduard Khudainatov2$718MScheherazade
Jeff Bezos2$575MKoru
Alexei Mordashov2$565MNord
Arthur Blank2$500MDreamboat
David Geffen2$500MRising Sun
Sergey Brin2$480MDragonfly
Howard Schultz2$470MPi
Tilman Fertitta2$449MBoardwalk
Steven Spielberg2$410MSeven Seas
Mark Zuckerberg2$400MLaunchpad
Nancy Walton Laurie2$330MKaos
Charles Simonyi2$310MNorn
Emir of Qatar2$300MKatara
Dan Snyder2$240MLady S
Vagit Alekperov2$225MGenesis
Michael Jordan2$210MM'Brace
Lorenzo Fertitta2$190MLonian
Sir Philip Green family2$150MLionheart
Goh Cheng Liang family2$100MWhite Rabbit
DeVos family2$80MChasing Daylight
Oleg Deripaska2$65MClio
J.K. Rowling2$60MCalypso
Amancio Ortega2$35MDrizzle
2nd Duke of Westminster2Fantome
Anthony Hsieh2Bad Company Support 175
Dragnis family2O'Pari
Jonathan Rothberg2Gene Chaser
Sir Malcolm Campbell2Blue Bird of 1938
Sultanate of Oman2Al Dhaferah
W.L. Stephenson2Malahne
Method

Ownership is as reported in open corporate records and press reporting, then matched to hulls in the register. It is reported, not certified, and holding structures are often opaque.

Computed from the register on this page load. Position data runs through 27 Jul 2026; 221 hulls and 175 owners are on file. The same figures are available through the data API.

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