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Cruise ships start making regular calls: Docksiders

Container Ship Management said the Crystal Harmony will arrive this Sunday from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with 960 passengers, for a day-long visit to Dockyard.

get into full swing.

Container Ship Management said the Crystal Harmony will arrive this Sunday from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with 960 passengers, for a day-long visit to Dockyard.

And the Royal Viking Sun , which was in Hamilton on Tuesday, will return for a one-day visit next Wednesday when the Song of America will make her first visit of the season. She will be docked at Number One dock in Hamilton until May 2.

Joe Simas of Meyer Agency said Norwegian Crown arrived in Bermuda on Tuesday from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. After spending the day in Bermuda, she departed with 962 passengers en route to Madeira, Portugal.

The Meridian arrived on Tuesday from Florida carrying 825 passengers. She will depart King's Wharf today.

Mr. Simas said the Dreamward paid her first call of the season to the Island yesterday and the Venice will make her first visit of the season to Bermuda today.

And the luxury yacht Talitha G , formerly Robert Stigwood's Jezebel , sailed into Hamilton Harbour last Friday to take on fuel and allow her crew a little R&R, said Mr. Simas.

The vessel, which was refitted by millionaire John Paul Getty, remained tied up at Front Street over the weekend and departed for Gibraltar on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Somers Isles arrived in Hamilton on Sunday carrying 116 containers, including 13 refrigerated containers, loose lumber and ten boats.

She departed the next morning at 6.40 a.m.

The Bermuda Islander also made its regular appearance, sailing in Monday to offload 93 containers of dry goods, nine reefers, and one boat. She set sail for Salem, New Jersey, on Tuesday.

The Oleander arrived in Bermuda on Sunday and unloaded 113 dry containers, 25 reefers, two forty-five-foot trailers of steel, 26 cars, two trailers of boats and a bundle of steel. She set sail on Tuesday.

And Harbour Radio said the cargo ship Caytrans Dolphin pulled into Penno's Wharf on Monday to refuel.

PORT OF CALL -- Royal Viking Sun and Norwegian Crown berthed alongside each other in Hamilton on Tuesday.

REFUELLING -- Cypriot-registered cargo ship Caytrans Dolphin pulled into Penno's Wharf on Monday to refuel. She was en route to Philadelphia from Rotterdam, Holland.

GETTING SOME R & R -- The yacht Talitha G , formerly Robert Stigwood's Jezebel .