NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a cruise ship approximately nine miles southeast of Fort Morgan on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a request at 8:43 p.m. from the cruise ship Carnival Fantasy for a medevac of a 54-year-old woman who had an injured shoulder.

Sector Mobile directed the launch of a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Dauphin Island to assist the woman.

The crew arrived on scene at 9:23 p.m. and transported the woman to emergency medical services at Station Dauphin Island.