Photographed sailing from Avonmouth on 31st March 1965 bound for Rostock, MSTA had been built in 1945 for the U.S.S.R. by Wartsila at Helsingfors, Finland.

The second of thirty one timber carriers of the Khasan type built between 1945 and 1955, MSTA was operated by the Baltic Shipping Company of Leningrad until 1955 when she was passed to the Murmansk Shipping Company who modernised the ship.

Passing to the Latvian Shipping Company in 1969, it is reported that, before being hulked at Latvia in 1975 and broken up, MSTA had traded as ZUTIS between 1971 and 1973.

This photograph can also be seen in my book "Bristol Port and Channel Nostagia" published by Coastal Shipping