Container Ship Management's Oleander arrived in port on Monday with a record 220 containers.

She was joined by two competitors also with high container numbers. Meyers' Somers Isles arrived from Florida on Monday with 98 containers and the Bermuda Islander was in port on Tuesday with 100 containers.

The Oleander's cargo included 180 dry containers, 40 refrigerator containers, three cars and two trailers.

The Somers Isles carried 90 dry containers, eight refrigerator containers, two boats, one truck, four pieces of a crane boom, 62 bundles of fencing, 37 bundles of pipe and 22 bundles of lumber. She departed on Monday morning.

The Bermuda Islander's cargo split included 92 dry containers and eight refrigerator containers.

The research vessel Oceanus left yesterday for the United States bringing an end to an extraordinary three weeks of oceanographic work off the Island.

Other ships working here included the Woods Holes Institute's Atlantis and the German research vessel Poseidon .

The Cape Hatteras remains in port awaiting the return of the Bermuda Biological Station's Weatherbird , currently undergoing a refit in Louisiana.

Also, departing this week from Malabar was the HMS Amazon , a UK frigate.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- Weatherbird II , the Bermuda Biological Station's premier research vessel, is expected to return to the Island in mid-May following a massive refit. The vessel is shown at anchor at the shipyard in Houma, Louisiana.