I read that she was originally designed as a 700.000 DWT, but during construction the ULCC demand was already declining so they just decided to change the lenght.

I saw, as Nanny, in lightening operations in February 1980 off the coast of Cayman Brac, was impressive I had never seen a ship so wide

King Alexander was owned by late John Latsis (Bilinder Marine, Athens, Greece and John S Latsis, London and Geneve). She was mainly working for Latsis' own refinery in Greece, namely Petrola, as storage, but she performed a few spot cargo voyages as well. At a certain point she was laid up, and then in early '90s she reactivated to perform a Shell voyage AG-Rotterdam. In 1997 she was in lay up in Elefsis, Greece - together with the rest of Latsis ULCCs, Hellas Fos, Acropolis, Paris

Thank you Peter A real eyecatcher. I searched to find her beam and found

IDNo: 7389352
Year: 1978
Name: NANNY
Launch Date: 04.08.1978
Type: Tanker
Date of completion: 11.1978
Flag: SWE
Tons: 245140
DWT: 491120
Yard No: 298
Length overall: 364.0
Country of build: SWE
Beam: 79.1
Builder: Uddevallavarvet
Location of yard: Uddevalla


See http://www.aukevisser.nl/supertankers/id51.htm