Navy frigate helps transport man

A SICK passenger has been airlifted from a cruise ship off the coast of Fremantle with the help of a navy frigate.

Crew on the MV Sea Princess contacted HMAS Toowoomba on Saturday morning to help transfer an elderly man suffering severe abdominal pains to hospital.

"We launched the ship's Seahawk helicopter at first light," said HMAS Toowoomba's commanding officer, Commander Brendon Zilko.

"The operation had a certain degree of difficulty as the Sea Princess doesn't have a landing pad, so we had to winch the patient off the deck and into the helicopter."

HMAS Toowoomba's doctor cared for the man as the helicopter flew 71 nautical miles to the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth.

The man is in a stable condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

"We are out here training for our next mission to the Middle East later this year," Cmdr Zilko said.

"I was very pleased with the way the crew handled a real-life emergency."

The MV Sea Princess has continued its passage to Adelaide.

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