developing engine trouble en route to New Jersey.

She will not be able to head back to Salem to pick up more containers until Tuesday at the earliest, after specialist parts have arrived.

Harbour Radio said the ship was 18 miles north of the Island at about 8 p.m.

when she turned back.

The Bermuda Biological Station workboat Stommel also did a mid-ocean U-turn and aborted the transfer of a crewman to the research ship Weatherbird II .

Her captain steered back to Bermuda from nine miles southeast of the Island at around 6.30 p.m.