As given by Watercraft Philately of the three ships, two are identified as the floating storage tank MAJMAA No 1 and MAJMAA No 2, while the ship on the right of the stamp is not identified. Can not find any photo of the storage tanks to compare with the two ships depict on the stamp.
Built under yard 173 as a tanker by Øresundvarvet A/B, Landskrona, Sweden for P/R Brøvigtank (Th Brøvig) Farsund, Norway.
12 October 1961 launched as ANNE MILDRED BRØVIG., christened by Mrs Gunvor Dymén
Tonnage 25,454 grt,15,156 net, 40,915 dwt. Dim. 213.5 x 29.5 x 15m. (draught), length bpp 204.2m.
Powered by one10-cyl. Gøtaverken diesel engine, 18,350 hp, one shaft, speed 17 knots.
21 February 1962 completed.
20 February 1966 on a voyage from Bandar Mashur to Hamburg loaded with 39.000 tons of Iranian crude oil, she collided with the British motor vessel PENTLAND of 876 grt ton in lat. 54 17N 06 48E at 06.11 G.M.T. during thick fog 35 miles west of Helgoland.
After the collision both vessels caught fire and the ANNE MILDRED BRØVIG, with on board 42 men crew requested immediate assistance, the crew abandoned the vessel except the master and 3 crewmembers for hours to fight the fire, but the blaze became so furious that the four still on board had eventually abandon the ship, all crew were picked up by other vessels.
The 17 men crew of the PENTLAND got the fire on board under control with the help of a boarding party of the Danish training ship AEGIR, she had severe bow damage but was able to proceed to Hamburg and repair.
The ANNE MILDRED BRØVIG on fire from stem to stern, drifted to Helgoland were she grounded west of the island, partially submerged only the bow above water. Al large film of oil drifted towards the Danish and German coastline on 25 February.
As she settled lower on the seabed, heavy waves pounded her bow, entering the air valves and pushing more oil out of her tanks.
28 February an icebreaker and two other vessels began to spray tons of chemicals on the oil seeping out of the hull.
When Danish fishermen complained that the chemicals would cause more harm to fish and their equipment than the oil, the chemicals were banned from use.
When the weather calmed down, divers found that 31 tanks of the ANNE MILDRED BRØVIG were undamaged, and not much oil more escaped from the wreck until 11 March when the weather deteriorated and a large quantity leaked into the sea and drifted to the East Frisian Islands.
The Dutch company of L. Smit & Co’s Internationale Sleepdienst and Van den Tak’s Bergingsbedrijf were given the contract to remove the oil still on board and salvage the tanker.
March 29 during bad weather she broke in two amidships and owning to the heavy seas not any salvage attempt was made.
End April work commenced to cut her in two, which was completed on 02 May, the forepart with on board still around 25,000 tons of oil was towed first to Helgoland for partial discharge then to Wilhelmshaven were the last was pumped out. It was calculated that about 16,000 tons of crude oil was lost.
The aft part of the vessel was left on the seabed.
The forepart was then sold to Bjarne Ruud-Pedersen in Oslo/Monrovia, and renamed ANNE MILDRED..
June 1966 sold to Eckhardt & Co. Hamburg..
1968 Sold to Dubai Petroleum Company at Dubai.
First it was planned that she would be connected at Hamburg to the forepart of the steam tanker AL MALIK SAUD AL-AWAL which also was damaged by an explosion and fire.
The two parts when joined would be used as a storage tank in the Persian Gulf. The plan did not materialise
09 November 1968 conversion work was completed and she was towed from Hamburg by the tug HADOM to Dubai.
She was renamed in MAJMAA No 1, and used as a floating oil storage tank, a unit of the Fateh oil field, located off the coast of Dubai.
Tonnage 30,000 dwt., capacity of storage of 10 million gallons.
2011 Can not find more a trace of her.
Dubai 1969 35d sg343, scott115 (she is the second ship on the stamp, the first is the MAJMAA No2, the ship on the right of the stamp is not identified.)
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Watercraft Philately. Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987 by Norman Hooke.