The man's heart, liver, kidneys, and one of his lungs were used for vital transplant operations.

The organs were removed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by a team of specialists from Boston.

Now local hospital chiefs have sent out a plea for more organ donors in Bermuda.

Six people on the Island are awaiting kidney transplant operations.

Dr. Beresford Swan, who runs the local dialysis unit, said yesterday: "Kidneys are the organs overwhelmingly in demand. I would definitely encourage people to become donors. We want as many as possible.'' Mr. Hume Martin, executive director of the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said transplant operations had become routine.

The name of the tourist, who died earlier this year, has not been disclosed.

His organs were recovered by the New England Organ Bank, and used successfully in a series of operations in the United States.

One of the kidneys went to a 34-year-old man, who is now expected to be taken off dialysis.

The other kidney was received by a 61-year-old woman in Florida. She had been suffering diabetes for many years, but her new organ is functioning well.

A 37-year-old married mother-of-one received the liver -- ending more than nine months of waiting for a transplant.

Before the operation she was not expected to survive. Now she is making a good recovery.

The heart went to a 62-year-old man, who had been suffering from coronary artery disease for 12 years.

The retired father-of-three, a contractor, had been on life support machines before surgery.

The recipient of the lungs was a 47-year-old man suffering from emphysema for 10 years. The married father-of-two, disabled by his disease, had been on the waiting list over a year.

The man's adrenal glands and spleen were offered to research programmes.

Details of the transplant operations were revealed in a thank you letter fron the New England Organ Bank to Intensive Care Unit staff at King Edward.