her maiden voyage.

The Bermuda Islander arrived from Salem, New Jersey on Monday morning with 67 containers including seven refrigerated containers.

She set sail at daylight on Tuesday.

Meyer Agencies Limited spokesman Mr. Stephen Paynter also reported that the Somers Isles arrived on Sunday morning from Jacksonville, Florida.

She offloaded 70 dry containers, nine refrigerated containers, a Mack truck, building materials and eight bundles of steel before leaving on Sunday afternoon.

In other container ship news, the Oleander arrived on Monday morning and off loaded 94 dry containers, 31 refrigerated containers, four cars, two 40-foot trailers of steel, an excavator and a 40-foot trailer of Christmas trees. She left on the following day at 8 a.m.

The refrigerated ship MV Racisce arrived at Penno's Wharf on Tuesday morning for repairs after one of her generators broke down.

The 151-metre long vessel was carrying a load of bananas from Costa Rica to Belgium when the problem occurred.

Meyer spokesman Mr. Joe Simas said the ship should leave tomorrow afternoon.

And the Talisman was due to arrive this afternoon with 650 rolls of newsprint for The Royal Gazette .

The ship, which is out of Dalhousie, Canada was due to leave as soon as she was unloaded.

After a busy period of military ships stopping over in Bermuda things quieted down considerably with only the Trafalgar Class nuclear submarine HMS Torbay arriving on Monday.

She was due to stay at the Knuckles Berth in Dockyard until December 2 when she would leave.

She was due to return to the Island briefly on December 7 to pick up equipment before heading back out to sea.