The Aframax -Tanker was the Indonesian oil company Pertamina for the shipyard Kanasashi Company in Toyohashi , Japan commissioned and there on 2 February 1993 under the hull number 3300 set to Kiel . The launch took place on March 25, 1993 and the completion of the ship followed on July 2, 1993.
The ship was initially managed by Graciela Shipping in Panama. In 2005 Pertamina sold the Bandar Ayu together with her sister ship Tandjung Ayu for 40 million euros with a return charter, after which the ship was used under the Singapore flag and the new name Pergiwati . After another sale to Gulf Rose Shipping in 2008, the tanker sailed under the name Gulf Glory and managed the shipping company Fal Shipping Company from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, under the Liberian flag. In February 2014, a North Korean company acquired the ship and renamed it Morning Glory .
In March 2014, militias of a self-proclaimed autonomous government in eastern Libya wanted to use tankers to export crude oil on their own. Three armed insurgents had taken control of the ship at the as-Sidr oil terminal and were loading the tanker. The Libyan Prime Minister Ali Seidan was removed from parliament shortly afterwards. On the evening of March 16, 2014, the ship was the target of a commando operation. The United States Special Operations Command Europe ordered the storming of the stateless tanker on the orders of US President Barack Obama following a request from the Libyan and Cypriot governments to the USA. US soldiers from the special forces unit Navy SEALs from the destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) were able to take control of the tanker in international waters south-east of Cyprus . The destroyer USS Stout (DDG-55) escorts the tanker back to Libya.
