Built as a tanker under yard No 883 by Howaldtswerke A.G., Hamburg for Saudi Arabian Tankers Co, Ltd (Aristotle Onassis).
30 July 1953 keel laid down
03 June 1954 launched as the AL-MALIK SAUD AL-AWAL what means His Majesty the King, the First.
Tonnage 28,738 grt, 46,548 dwt., dim. 236.4 x 29.2 x 11.86m., length bpp. 220.69m.
Powered by two steam turbine, manufactured by Howaldtswerke A.G, geared to one shaft, 17.500 hp., speed 17 knots.
30 October 1954 completed. Homeport Damman, Saudi Arabia.
When delivered she was the largest tanker in the world.
1960 Transferred to Garraway Transportation Co., Monrovia, Liberia.
09 June 1966 an explosion in the engine room and fire on board the AL-MALIK SAUD AL-AWAL in the Venezuelan port of La Salina in Lake Maracaibo killed eight crew members and injured a other six.
The explosion happened at 3 a.m. when she was loading crude oil for the Lake Minas refinery at Panama.
She was towed away from the loading pier and beached on the western side of Lake Maracaibo, where the fire was extinguished four days later. After surveyed it was found that the aft ship was complete gutted by the fire from the top till the waterline.
After she was refloated she was towed to Port of Spain after been declared a constructive total loss.
She was sold to a foreign buyer with the intention of being scrapped.
Towed to Tenerife, Canary Islands for discharging of the oil still on board.
In December after the crude oil was discharged she was towed to Hamburg, her forepart having been resold to Dubai Petroleum Company wit the intention that the forepart would join the forepart of the ANNE MILDRED BRØVIG and converted in a non-propelled floating oil storage tank for use in the Persian Gulf.
The afterpart of the AL-MALIK SAUD AL-AWAL after separated was scrapped in Hamburg.
The joining of the two parts did not materialize, instead the forepart of the AL-MALIK SAUD AL-AWAL was towed to Marseille where she arrived in August 1968 where she was converted in a storage tank barge
Renamed in MAJMAA No 2.
She has a storage capacity of about 10 million gallons.
2011 Can not find more a trace of her.
Dubai 1969 35d sg343, scott115.(she is the ship on the left of the stamp beyond her is the MAJMAA No 1, the ship on the right is not identified.)