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Ship's cook evacuated for medical treatment

Emergency personnel evacuated a Sri Lankan cook from a container ship on Saturday night.The 42-year-old man was en route to Spain from the Bahamas aboard the Nordstrand when he suffered a suspected heart attack.

Emergency personnel evacuated a Sri Lankan cook from a container ship on Saturday night.

The 42-year-old man was en route to Spain from the Bahamas aboard the Nordstrand when he suffered a suspected heart attack.

He is currently undergoing tests at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

And the Panama-registered car ship Brilliant Ace -- on which seven stowaways were hiding -- brought in 154 vehicles and 46 packages of spare parts on Sunday.

She left later the same day.

The new US Navy destroyer Donald Cook left the Island on Monday after five days of rest and relaxation in Dockyard.

In regular shipping news, the Oleander arrived on Sunday with 130 dry and 29 refrigerated containers, 14 cars, an excavator, a tractor trailer, a rotor machine, and four trailers of steel.

But the ship's departure was pushed forward to today after delays caused by an industrial dock dispute.

The Somers Isles arrived yesterday with 108 dry and three refrigerated containers, two boats, and numerous bundles of lumber and steel.

Tomorrow the Bermuda Islander is expected with 75 dry and 18 refrigerated containers.

And the propane gas carrier Coral Acropora is expected to arrive on Saturday to discharge a load at the oil docks in St. George's.