Millionaire film mogul, Bruce Gordon, shipped his luxury yacht onto the island this week -- just as the cruise ship season comes to a close.

The Australian boss of Paramount has berthed the 48-foot Hatteras motor yacht at his home in Wreck Hill, Somerset -- the former estate of entertainment boss Robert Stigwood.

The yacht arrived at Hamilton harbour aboard the Oleander on Sunday evening.

Meanwhile, 34 students from Massachusets Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute tied up at Penno's Wharf in St. George's yesterday to carry out brief research. Their ship is due to leave the island early this morning.

The research vessel however, suffered minor damage and five crew members reported to the sick bay with cuts and bruises suffered during the storms earlier this week.

And six cruise ships were docking or setting sail from Bermuda this week.

The Queen Elizabeth 2 , carrying 1,640 passengers, will call in to King's Wharf at Dockyard on Saturday evening; she sails in from the Azores.

The Cunard liner leaves at 4 p.m, on Sunday, heading for the Bahamas.

Song of America arrived in Hamilton harbour yesterday -- a day late because of bad weather. The 1,400-passenger cruiser heads back to New York on tomorrow.

The smaller cruiser Crystal Harmony will dock at King's Wharf for seven hours on Monday. And the Silver Cloud is due at Hamilton today from New York, before leaving tomorrow.

The Royal Majesty berthed at Ordnance Island, St. George's, yesterday for a two-day stop on its round trip from Boston. She is carrying around 1,000 passengers.

And the Zenith arrived in Hamilton from Virginia, yesterday, carrying 1,400 passengers.

The car carrier Scandinavian Highway berthed at Hamilton, yesterday morning to drop off 78 new cars from Japan, before heading back to the Far East via the Caribbean.

Meanwhile, shipping agency John S. Darrell carried out a routine "humivac'' operation when they brought an American sailor ashore from a US submarine.

The crewman was ferried two miles to St. David's on the Bermuda pilot boat early yesterday. The submarine had surfaced at Five Fathom Hole so the sailor could return home to the US.

Meanwhile container ships docking in Bermuda this week brought in a range of cargo -- from championship yachts to fuel and steel rods.

Five containers loaded up with racing yachts were brought ashore from the Oleander on Sunday. The boats will race in the Bacardi Rum Tornado World Championship in the Great Sound next month.

The yachts and their owners have already begun pitching camp at the old Royal Navy Dockyard site to prepare for the big race.

And the Oleander , which pulled in at Hamilton's number eight dock, also unloaded 119 containers of dry cargo and 43 reefers.

She also carried a 30-foot open container carrying general cargo, as well as four 45-foot maffis. The Oleander sailed for Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Tuesday.

Cable and Wireless's Sir Eric Sharp steamed into port at Dockyard yesterday and the Cyprus-registered oil tanker, Anemonia , berthed at the Esso Oil Pier at Ferry Reach on Saturday to discharge a load of fuel.

She left the Island with her 23 crew on Sunday, bound for Curacao in the Dutch West Indies.

On Monday, the Bermuda Islander berthed at Hamilton after sailing from Salem, New Jersey.

She unloaded 92 containers of general cargo, including 18 reefers.

STORM TOSSED -- Thirty-four students aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute research vessel, Westward, yesterday put into Penno's Wharf in St.

George's, after a few rocky days out at sea. The Westward is in local waters to allow the drew to carry out research