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7th September 2018

Airlift By Coastguard of Stena Line Worker to Hospital

The scene early yesterday morning of the Coastguard helicopter

#Coastguard - A worker from a ferry writes BelfastLive had to be airlifted to Belfast after falling ill on board the ferry.

The coastguard was alerted to the medical emergency on board the Stena Lagan in the early hours of (yesterday) morning, September 6.

Reports said the crew member had fallen ill on the Liverpool to Belfast ferry. The coastguard set up a medi-link call with a doctor and it was advised the crew member was evacuated from the ship.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago