PHOTOS: Repairs to continue through night on container ship in Bantry Bay

Repairs are expected to continue throughout the night on the huge container ship, Atlantic Companion, which is anchored in Bantry Bay after losing engine power and drifting for almost 12 hours off Cork on Tuesday.

The Swedish-flagged vessel was en-route from Liverpool to Halifax when it experienced problems with one of the six cylinders on its main engine.

However Gerry Callanan of ACL, the container shipping company which owns the vessel, told customers who have containers on board that he expects the vessel to resume its trans-Atlantic voyage at some stage tomorrow morning.