Launched as MÖWE III on 24.01.1956 at Maschinenfabrik und Schiffswerft Alfred Hagelstein, Lübeck-Travemünde (Yard/Hull No.: 583) for Partenreederei m.s. "Möwe III" (Management: Reederei Kapitän Heinrich Krohn GmbH., Lübeck-Travemünde), Lübeck. Delivered to her owners on 24.03.1956. GRT: 999, NRT: 701, DWT: 1675. Call sign: DKCH.
07.07.1959 renamed BEACHWOOD (Chartername from Durban Line, Durban South Africa). (The Durban Lines coasters were named after suburbs of the city of Durban. Beachwood is an area slightly to the north of the Umgeni River, on the shoreline, and including a very well-known area where natural mangroves still grow. This is now a protected natural heritage site.)
In November 1959 the management taken over by "Orion" Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft Reith & Co., Hamburg.
1960 sold to Partenreederei m.s. "Beachwood" (Management: "Orion" Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft Reith & Co., Hamburg), Lübeck.
09.07.1962 bought by "Orion" Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft Reith & Co., Lübeck and renamed MÖWE III.
Acquired on 15.09.1962 by Keller Shipping Ltd., Basel, and renamed LAUPEN. Onmitted from the German register on 20.09.1962, and registered in Switzerland the same day. Official No.: 071. Call sign: HBDW.
23.07.1980 sold to Jebel Ali National Marine Co., Jumairah (ARE), and renamed JEBELl ALI 1. GRT: 1007, NRT: 637, DWT: 1660. Call sign: n.a.
14.07.1982, on a voyage from Dubai to Mogadiscio, with a cargo of vehicels, wood and general cargo, a fire broke out in her engine room on 13.07.1982, after she was drifting in heavy seas for three days with engine trouble. Her crew left her and she sank in the Arabian Sea in a position 11°51' N, 51°37' 18" E about 50 nautical miles southeast off the Dante coast Somalia. The 14 crew members picked up from the Russian motor tanker "General Zhdanov" which took them to Singapore.