EARLIER this week we reported that historian Dan Snow has urged Newport to make the most of a "unique" tourism opportunity, coinciding with the return of a medieval ship's final timbers to the city.
So we thought it would be the perfect time to take a look in our archives for pictures of when the ship was discovered.
Archaeologists have spent years drying and restoring the wooden skeleton of the 15th-century ship, which was uncovered in the muddy banks of the Usk in 2002 close to where the Riverfront is now.
The return of the ship to Newport offers the city a chance to bring in "generations" of tourists and money, capitalising on the historical importance of the ship which is believed to have carried out trade between Britain and the Iberian peninsula.
The Friends of Newport Ship
The campaign to preserve the ship
Crowds when the ship was discovered in 2022
Crowds when the ship was discovered in 2022
Curator Toby Jones and a model of the ship, pictured in 2012
Kelsey Dronfield, pictured at an open day in 2012
The panels of the Newport Ship
Jean Gray (left) of the Friends of Newport Ship
An artist's reconstruction of Newport when the Newport Ship was sailing, by Anne Leave and Bob Trett's
Jean Gray (right) of the Friends of Newport Ship
A French coin from 1447 found in the Newport Ship
The excavation of the Newport Ship
Crowds when the Newport Ship was discovered in 2002
The timbers from the Newport Ship
The timbers from the Newport Ship
The excavation of the Newport Ship
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