tour of duty in the North Atlantic.

Destroyer HMS Cardiff and Royal Fleet Auxiliary Black Rover will arrive tomorrow after a six-month tour of duty as the UK Atlantic Patrol Task ship.

It departs Bermuda on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the cable-laying ship Sir Eric Sharp , formerly owned by Cable and Wireless and now operated by Global Marine Systems, a subsidiary of Bermuda-based Global Crossing, arrived back in Bermuda last Thursday and is now moored at Dockyard.

Meyer Agency also reports the Bermuda Islander due in tomorrow with an unknown list of cargo. The Somers Isle arrived on Monday and will sail tomorrow.

Also arriving tomorrow for fuel is the tug Sea Grath , which will moor at Ordnance Island.

Container Ship Management reports the Oleander in on Sunday with 151 dry containers, 37 refrigerated and three trailers. It departed yesterday.

John S. Darrell have the Coral Acropora tied-up at Ferry Reach with a load of liquid propane gas and the cement carrier Starfish in at Dockyard.

A load of cars will be arriving on Friday aboard the Frontier Ace , with Harnett and Richardson as agents. Julian Sykes reported 129 vehicles on board the ship and 27 cases of spare parts.

The vessel, which comes from Port O Prince, Haiti, departs on the same day for Nassau, Bahamas.