LAST week's featured ship was the Russian timber vessel the Pushlakhta at Newport Dock in 1978.

This week's ship is also in Newport Dock being loaded in 1980. Do you recognise her? Send your answers to sarah.wigmore@gwent-wales.co.uk or write to Sarah Wigmore, South Wales Argus, Cardiff Road, Newport, NP20 3QN.

The Pushlakhta (named after the Primorsky district, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia).

Sir Gonville Ffrench

Basingstoke

It's the Pushlakhta, a Soviet timber carrying merchant vessel registered

in Archangel.

It was built in Vyborg shipyard in 1971 and scrapped around 2005.

Reader Paul Harley