Photos by Ray O Donoghue

Europa anchored between Bantry and Whiddy Island in West Cork. She arrived earlier from Fowey in the UK. Her passengers will be ferried ashore by the cruise ships tenders and many will spend the day ashore in West Cork. The next port of call is Galway, Ireland.

Tender 4 arriving at the quay in Bantry to disembark passengers from Europa. The Cruise liner is anchored in Bantry Bay where she arrived earlier from Fowey, UK.

Tender 4 alongside mother ship Europa in Bantry Bay.

Tender1 waiting to ferry passengers from the quay in Bantry to the cruise liner Europa which is anchored a short distance away in the Inner Harbour of Bantry Bay.

KATE C alongside Kennedy Quay, Cork. She will shortly unload her cargo from Cueta, Spain.

ANDROMEDA arriving in the Port of Cork, approaches her berth at the Custom House Quay Marina. She arrived upriver from Crosshaven having arrived two days earlier from Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.

EGS ECHO at the Custom House Quay Marina, Cork.

EGS ECHO alongside the Marina at The Custom House Quay, Cork.

CAILIN OIR is now available for Cork Harbour Tours, seen here at her berth at the Custom House Quay,Cork.

CAILIN OIR alongside the Custom House Quay Marina in Cork.

CATHERINE W at the pier in Bantry inner Harbour.

CATHERINE W at the Abbey slipway in Bantry

AVALON at the Marina in Bantry

KARYCRAFT leaving Cobh for the Naval Base at Haulbowline

EERBORG en route to Aughinish in the West of Ireland leaving the sheltered anchorage of Ballycotton Bay where she overnighted after sailing earlier from Greenore.

Shannon class Lifeboat WILLIAM and AGNES WRAY 13-41 leaving Ballycotton. She will overnight at the Lifeboat Station in Youghal and then continue on her delivery voyage to her new home port of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.

R.N.L.I. LIFEBOAT 13-41 on a brief visit to the Ballycotton Lifeboat Station after arriving from the Kinsale Lifeboat Station where she spent the night at the local Marina. She is the newest Shannon class lifeboat and will be stationed in Dunmore East.

EXCELSIOR at her mooring off Ballycotton Co. Cork.

SABRINA II approaching the pier in Baltimore ,West Cork.

CARMONA at the quay in Union Hall, Cork.

CAAREEN at Union Hall, Cork.

DUN NA SEAD II at the pier in Baltimore, Co. Cork.

DUN AN OIR leaving Baltimore for Cape Clear Island off West Cork.

STEPHANIE tied up in Union Hall, West Cork.

WOODLAND unloading timber logs from Scotland at Passage West, Cork. She is due to sail shortly for the Ardrishaig Basin, Scotland and another cargo of timber

NORTH SEA GIANT leaving Marino Point where she took on supplies, is seen heading down river to sea, on her way to resume her work at the Kinsale gas field.

FRI KARMSUND unloading a part cargo at Passage West, Cork. She will sail shortly for Setubal in Portugal.

NORTH SEA GIANT arriving in Cork Harbour from the Kinsale Head and Seven Heads gas fields off the Cork coast. She is employed in subsea removal.

Robin 2 leaving Cork Harbour for Tilbury,UK. She arrived earlier from Moin in Costa Rica and unloaded containers of fruit at Ringaskiddy.

SIEM PEARL leaving Cork Harbour for the Kinsale Head and Seven Heads gas fields.

Gladiator on the outside berth at the Irving Whitegate oil refinery in Cork Harbour.

GARDINER escorted by DSG TITAN arriving in Cork Harbour from Moin in Costa Rica. GARDINER was previously in Cork Harbour as BSL CAPE TOWN.

CORRIB FISHER at anchor waiting for a berth at the Irving Whitegate Refinery to load for Galway.

Gale at anchor in the Cobh roads and waiting for orders as she had just delivered a cargo to Tivoli, Cork.

DSG ALEX approaching the mooring buoy off Whitegate as DSG TITAN is about to cast off to escort the container ship Gardiner to Ringaskiddy.

NS CONCORD unloading crude at the Irving Whitegate Refinery in Cork Harbour.

MELUSINE leaving Cork Harbour for Zeebrugge, Belgium.

ROMAN REBEL at anchor off Ballycotton, Cork.

OLIVIA M unloading her cargo at Kennedy Quay, Cork. She will sail shortly for Ipswich in the UK.

ADAMS unloading a cargo from Wismar, Germany at Kennedy Quay, Cork

BG JADE arriving from Liverpool, passing Spike island in Cork Harbour, en route to the Tivoli Container Terminal in Cork.

BG DIAMOND loading at the Tivoli Container Terminal in Cork before returning to Rotterdam where she arrived from a few days ago.

NAJADE loading a cargo at Horgans Quay, Cork for Vasteras, Sweden.

ELBTRADER a regular caller to the Tivoli Container Terminal ,Cork.

MAINPORT PINE alongside Albert Quay, Cork.

MAINPORT PINE alongside at Albert Quay, Cork.

EUROCARGO BARI arriving from Antwerp en route to the Ro-ro berth at Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour. Cobh is the town in the background.

KMARIN RIGOUR unloading a cargo of crude at the Irving oil refinery at Whitegate in Cork Harbour.

FRI MARLIN leaving Cork Harbour after unloading a cargo of timber from Sandbank,Scotland at Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke.

CAP BEATRICE leaving Cork Harbour for Tilbury,UK. Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour was her first port of call in Europe since she left Moin in Costa Rica eleven days previously. Cobh is the town in the background.