Not to make naked assertion, Omsk was scrapped at Ilychevsk shiprepair yard at summer 1959.

Lakhtikov Dmitriy on Jul 30, 2019 06:21 (5 seconds ago)
So many talks...)) Clue can be very simple, visible name more like "Argun" (АРГУНЬ) but "Omsk", demolision of which was started in 1959.

Situation was as follows: deleted in Soviet Register 1959 and deleted in LR Register 1969/1970. Photo shoot year is OK.

I agree with that, it happened. Especially when the friendship between Egypt and the USSR was relatively strong at the time.

That may well be true, asnyk, but incomplete - then taken back for a voyage, perhaps by the military with arms or some such cargo for Egypt. It would be interesting to see whether the ship movement(s) through the Bosphorus was picked up by Lloyds.

06/11/1950 transferred to the balance of the Black Sea State Shipping Company. On February 3, 1959, it was decommissioned, excluded from the lists of vessels of the Minmorflot and handed over to Glavvtorchermet for dismantling and cutting into metal.This is the official report. But the reality was somewhat different.

So she survived her official demise by at least two years... Guess then we'll never know when and where she actually ended up.

That's also true, davidships, but the Chinese ships only moved out of Chinese waters after they were removed from Loyd. Some Soviet ships were mostly used as floating warehouses (similarly in Poland). But a later one-time use is possible.

No doubt Lloyds' Register published the best info they had, but like many a Chinese "broken up" there were a number of Soviet ships that survived longer than was thought.

Jens is right. Ship built 1919 in Columbia River Shipbuilding Co., Portland as West Harts. 5538gt. 1929-1945 Texas, 1945-1950 Kapitan Vislobokov and from 06.1950 Omsk. Deleted 1959 and broken up.

Hm, can't argue with you about that, I wasn't even born yet in 1961 :-) But these Belorussia-class ship seemed to be an almost perfect match...

Hello Jens - Many thanks for your comments - Definitely correct year as I sailed from Alexandria on the Lydia of Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, from which I took the photo, in that July. Derek

Are you sure about the year Linesman? Looks like this one was originally "West Harts", built in 1919, but she was broken up as Omsk in 1959 already

See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belorussia-class_cargo_ships

Have a look at the photo of West Cajoot for reference...

Cheers,
Jens