Photos by Ray o Donoghue

HARPY alongside the Marina in Bantry.

ARKLOW FALCON loading scrap metal at Passage West in Cork Harbour for Barriero,Portugal.

PELES loading at Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour for Pasajes,Spain.

ARKLOW VANGUARD leaving Cork Harbour for New Ross.

MINERVA ZENIA leaving Whitegate oil refinery in Cork Harbour.

STOLT GREENSHANK leaving Cork Harbour for Stanlow,UK.

OCEAN SUPPORTER, a recent addition to the Atlantic Towage fleet, approaching the pier in Bantry.

CONNEMARA leaving Cork Harbour for Santander,Spain.She had arrived earlier in the morning after an overnight sailing from Roscoff,France.

VEMAHONESTY leaving Cork Harbour for Vlissingen in the Netherlands.She had just completed bunkering Brittany Ferries Connemara at Ringaskiddy.

SUSANNE leaving Cork Harbour for Delfzijl in the Netherlands.

WES NICOLE leaving Cork Harbour for Bayonne,France.

PANTA RHEI at anchor at Cobh Roads in Cork Harbour.

FLUVIUS AXE loading wood-chips at Passage West for Beverwijk in the Netherlands.

ARKLOW VIKING loading scrap metal at Passage West for Leixoes, Portugal.She is the ninth V class vessel of a ten vessel order built by Royal Bodewes in the Nederlands for Arklow Shipping and was handed over on the 12-04-2018.The ten vessel order will be completed shortly when Arklow Villa enters service.

VITA loading wood-chips at Passage West for Norrkoping in Sweden.

KRISTIINA arriving in Cork Harbour from Derry.

HAFNIA LISE is caught in a heavy April shower while leaving Cork Harbour for Dublin.

PATRICK C arriving in Cork Harbour from the fishing grounds.

MELAS heading into a southerly wind as she leaves Cork Harbour for Belfast.

FAILTE in rough weather in Cork Harbour.

X PRESS MULHACEN arriving in Cork Harbour from Dublin.

CIELO DI ROTTERDAM discharging at the Whiddy Island storage facility SPM buoy in Bantry Bay.Built in Vietnam she is the third of six new build sisters for her owners dAmico International Shipping and was delivered in late January 2018.

Arklow Forest in bound to Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour from Portbury,UK.

ARKLOW VENUS,2018, leaving a very foggy Cork Harbour for Belfast. This V Class vessel is the eight of a ten vessel order being built by Royal Bodewes, The Netherlands for Arklow Shipping.

BRITISH CIRRUS arriving in Cork Harbour en route to Whitegate oil refinery.She is one of the latest Cloud Class tankers to join the BP fleet and was completed in 2017 .DSG ALEX is the escorting tug.

HHL LAGOS leaving Cork Harbour with her cargo of two cranes. The cranes were built by Liebherr in Killarney, Co. Kerry and brought in kit form to Cork Dockyard where they were assembled for transportation to Hull,UK.

HHL LAGOS passing Cobh where she loaded two container cranes at the local Cork Dockyard.

The Spit Bank Light in Cork Harbour. It was first lit in 1853 having taken two years to construct.

LE SAMUEL BECKETT,P61, arriving in Cork Harbour.

ATLAS leaving Cork Harbour for Wicklow,Ireland.

Roches Point Lighthouse at the mouth of Cork Harbour. The present lighthouse was built in 1835 and automated in 1995.The Irish Naval ship entering the harbour is the LE Samuel Beckett.

MAERSK TRENTON reduces speed as she waits for a pilot to take her to the mooring buoy to unload her cargo of petrol at Whiddy in Bantry Bay.

HOEGH SINGAPORE arriving in Cork Harbour en route to the wharf at Ringaskiddy.

BG DIAMOND leaving Cork Harbour for Rotterdam.This was her maiden visit to Cork as she only recently arrived in Rotterdam from her builders in China. Three identical sister ships will enter service for BG Freight Line in 2018.They will be Emerald,Sapphire and Jade .Pilot boat in photo is Gleann Mor.

ARKLOW BANK arriving in Cork Harbour from Uddevalla.Sweden. She is one of six identical sisters built for Arklow Shipping in 2014-2015.

MAERSK NESTON leaving Cork Harbour for Tilbury,UK. The Harbour town of Cobh can be seen in the background.

LE EITHNE passing Camden Fort Meagher in Cork Harbour as she heads to sea.

THUN GRANITE leaving Cork Harbour for Plymouth,UK.

WILSON GARSTON arriving from Rotterdam en route to Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour.

MAERSK NEWBURY leaving Cork Harbour for Tilbury,UK.Escorting tug is DSG Titan.

ARKLOW RIVAL at Cork Dockyard, Rushbrooke, Cork.

CONTI BENGUELA loading at Whitegate oil refinery in Cork Harbour.

FLUVIUS PLYM unloading a cargo from Hamburg at Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour.She is a regular caller to Cork and delivered numerous cargos under her previous names, PS Sand, BBS Sand and Arklow Sand.

ARKLOW SPIRIT en route to Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour.She will unload part of her cargo of animal feed from Brazil and then sail for Dublin to discharge the remainder. This is the first cargo the Irish flagged ARKLOW SPIRIT 2013 or her sister ARKLOW SPRAY 2014 has brought to the Port of Cork.

ROYAL FAIRNESS leaving Cork Harbour.She discharged a part cargo at Ringaskiddy and will discharge the remainder on arrival in Dublin.

THUN GENIUS taking a pilot from Gleann Mor while heading to Whitegate oil refinery in Cork Harbour.

VOLVOX OLYMPIA passing Roches Point with silt dredged from the quays in Cork city.

HUELIN DISPATCH leaving Cork Harbour for Southampton.She just completed her five year survey while dry docked in Cork Dockyard for the past ten days,

Crosshaven Coast Guard at Roches Point.

MTS VECTOR at the pier in Ballycotton. She is presently employed by the RNLI and is checking Lifeboat moorings around the coast.