She was completed in 1972 by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon, England as SWANSEA for BP and was in a series of coastal tankers named after various BP establishments round the British coast.
In the 1970s she became BP JOUSTER and this was taken off Grangemouth in 1981.
A further renaming occurred, to BORDER JOUSTER and she was scrapped in 2005 completing a 32 year career with the one company.