a deceased crew member.

The 77,000-ton cargo ship weighed anchor three miles off shore St. David's and was en route from Monkstaad, Norway to Corpus Christy, Texas.

Details surrounding the death of 32-year-old Francisco Delapena were unavailable, but it is understood that he was a Filipino national.

He is currently being held at the morgue at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and an autopsy will be performed before Mr. Delapena's body is flown home.

In other shipping news, the cruise ship Norwegian Crown made its first appearance for the season yesterday.

A spokesman for Meyer Agencies said 1,006 passengers were on board and the ship is scheduled to return to Port Canaveral, Florida this afternoon.

A second cruise ship, Seaborn Legend , will arrive tomorrow from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but depart for Punta del Gada, Azores, the same day.

On Sunday, the container ship Oleander entered Hamilton Harbour from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

On board were 144 dry containers, 40 refrigerated containers, four road trailers of structured steel, four cars and one boat.

The Oleander left Bermuda on Monday.

The car ship Century Leader had a brief layover on Saturday en route to Nassau, Bahamas.

And the Bermuda Islander sailed into Bermuda with 120 containers, including 16 refrigerated.

John S. Darrell reported transporting 15 family members of US navy officers to the USSF Carolina and the USSF Underwood on Tuesday morning.

The Cable and Wireless vessel Sir Eric Sharp will hold an open house today at the number one shed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. before returning to Dockyard on Monday for station duty.

Two private motor yachts also stopped briefly in Bermuda during the past weekend.

The Golden Horizon and the Cardigrae VI both refuelled in St. George's.