Alex Trelinski
SPAIN’S Maritime Rescue team came to the aid of a British passenger who fell ill on a cruise ship.
The woman was on the Sky Princess liner which had left Vigo in the Galicia region on Wednesday afternoon- heading for Funchal in Madeira.
A helicopter was scrambled to the vessel which was five nautical miles south-west of Cape Silleiro in northern Spain.
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The Brit, who was suffering from a heart condition, was taken to Vigo’s Alvaro Cunqueiro Hospital.
No further details have been released about the woman or any potential travelling companions.
The Sky Princess was on a 12-night Mediterranean cruise after departing from Southampton.
After a Funchal stop-over, its next destinations are three of the Canary Islands before returning to the UK via Lisbon in Portugal.
The vessel has a maximum capacity of 3,660 passengers.
