A 23-year-old woman stabbed during a Bermynet booze cruise last summer said yesterday she had no doubt who her attacker was.

Ariaa Marshall told jurors she saw Felicia Sasha Renee Harris raise a hand and stab her.

"I was bleeding on my clothes and on the floor."

Ms Marshall said she was less than four feet away from Harris around the time of the alleged incident.

Harris, who is 18, denies that she unlawfully wounding Ariaa Marshall with the intent to do her grievous bodily harm on July 2, 2005 aboard the MV Bermudian.

The Supreme Court yesterday heard about a fight breaking out between the two women.

Shortly after it was broken up, an unrelated fight involving a large number young men erupted aboard the ship. The court heard bottles were thrown and scuffles broke out on the main floors before the stabbing occurred in a downstairs room.

Taking the stand, Ms Marshall said trouble flared after she realised that Harris and two friends were kicking her cousin. Ms Marshall, who claimed she drank three Hennessy and cokes all night, said she approached Harris to question her about why she beat up her cousin.

She denied punching Harris during the verbal dispute but agreed she wanted to "get to" her and fight her before bouncers pulled them apart. Soon afterwards a larger unrelated fight broke out and the women took shelter in lower sections of the boat.

Ms Marshall said that shortly after the fight broke out on the upper decks a friend told her that Harris was in the ship's kitchen. Ms Marshall agreed that she then sought Harris out with the intention of fighting her. She admitted that she punched Harris twice in the face. She also told the court that she was then pulled away by friends and taken to a nearby room but returned within five minutes.

"I jumped up on the bench and came around closer to where Felicia was standing," she said. "She didn't say anything to me before she stabbed me. I saw her raise her hand and stab me. After that I came off the bench. I was bleeding on my clothes and on the floor."

Ms Marshall said she was less than four feet away from Harris at the time. She was then taken to another room where people began to apply pressure to a five centimetre wound she received on her upper right chest. The wound Ms Marshall sustained resulted in a partially punctured lung and landed her in the hospital for a week.

During cross examination by defence counsel Elizabeth Christopher, she denied that she was drunk but admitted that as a cognac, Hennessy was meant to be sipped. She also agreed that she told Police that Harris did not punch her back and covered her face in protection instead. But she was adamant it was Harris who stabbed her and not someone else. Ms Marshall also told the court that this was not the first fight she was involved in.

Harris, of Sayle Road in Smiths, will return to court today for the third day of what is expected to be a two-week trial.