penultimate voyage of the 1998 cruise ship season.

It was the only arrival at the cruise ship terminals this week. The Norwegian Cruise Line vessel is out of Port Canaveral, Florida and left yesterday.

At the container docks, a Container Ship Management spokeswoman reported that the Oleander arrived on Sunday with 123 dry containers and 36 refrigerated containers.

The vessel offloaded six road trailers of steel and building materials, two boats and 28 cars before it departed for Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Tuesday.

Also at the container docks this week was the Somers Isles from Fernandina Beach, Florida.

The Somers Isles arrived on Monday with 105 containers including 11 refrigerated containers, reported a Meyer Agencies spokesman.

The Bermuda Islander , he continued, is expected in today. A container count was not available yesterday as the freight department for Meyer Agencies' was in the process of relocating.

Last Thursday, the Bermuda Islander brought in 120 containers including 18 refers for the Island on its new mid-week schedule.

And last Friday the tug Viking Explorer arrived on Island to tow the disabled motor yacht Lady S back to Savannah, Georgia for repairs. The vessels left Bermuda on Saturday.

Over the weekend the Island hosted the tanker MT Iver Explorer which arrived at the Esso Oil docks in the East End on Saturday and left Sunday after discharging a load of fuel for Bermuda.

On Sunday the motor tanker Wilma Yangtze made a pit stop at Five Fathom Hole where it picked up spare parts for its engine while en route from Philadelphia to Angola.

Shipping agents John S. Darrell had no activity to report this week.