• The Dark class, or Admiralty "Type A", were a class of eighteen fast patrol boats that served with the United Kingdom's Royal Navy starting in 1954. All...
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    The Brave-class fast patrol boats were a class of two gas turbine motor torpedo boats (MTBs) that were the last of their type for the Royal Navy (RN)...
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    The Gay class were a class of twelve fast patrol boats that served with the Royal Navy from the early 1950s. All were named after types of soldiers or...
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    Point-class cutter was a class of 82-foot patrol vessels designed to replace the United States Coast Guard's aging 83-foot wooden hull patrol boat being...
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  • boat Gay-class patrol boat Dark-class patrol boat Brave-class patrol boat Island-class patrol vessel Castle-class patrol vessel Archer-class patrol vessel...
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    This is a list of patrol boats of the Royal Navy. Archer-class patrol and training craft Archer Biter Smiter Pursuer Blazer Dasher Puncher Charger Ranger...
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  • hostile fast patrol boats. The force consisted of the only two Brave-class patrol boats to be completed along with one Dark-class boat. In January 1969...
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    Motor launch (naval) (category Patrol boat classes)
    the Royal Navy R boat – German World War II equivalent Dark-class fast patrol boat Gardiner, p. 101 Jeffrey Charles. "The Rhine Patrol Flotilla Part I:...
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    PT-109 was an 80-foot (24 m) Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president...
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    The Shershen class was the NATO reporting name for a class of torpedo boats built for the Soviet Navy and allies. The Soviet designation was Project 206...
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    Navy with the Dark class and Gay class fast patrol boats in 1954. The last MTBs in the Royal Navy were the two Brave-class fast patrol boats of 1958, which...
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    was serving as Boat Captain and Patrol Officer aboard River Patrol Boat (PBR) 105 accompanied by another patrol boat when the patrol was suddenly taken...
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    was an S-Class Patrol Torpedo boat (PT boat) of the United States Navy, built by the Electric Launch Company of Bayonne, New Jersey. The boat was laid...
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    the building of a floating police station. Dedicated police patrol boats began patrolling the waters around the colony.[citation needed] In 1916, the...
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    with the US Navy were known as Temptress- and Action-class patrol gunboats. Other Flower-class corvettes served with the Free French Naval Forces, the...
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    plan by using both patrol boats and PT boats to attack the two ROC ships. The patrol boats included newly commissioned Shanghai-class Type 062 gunboats...
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  • Paw Patrol is a Canadian animated television series created by Keith Chapman and produced by Spin Master Entertainment, with animation provided by Guru...
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    submarine chaser number 233 departed on a regular patrol, but failed to return on time. The boat was later discovered to be sunk, and the entire crew...
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    PT-337 was a PT-103-class motor torpedo boat that was sunk in action during the Pacific Theater of World War II in Hansa Bay, New Guinea, on 7 March 1944...
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    A maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), also known as a patrol aircraft, maritime reconnaissance aircraft, maritime surveillance aircraft, or by the older American...
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    Günther Prien (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    270 GRT. Prien was recalled by Dönitz to prevent all boats returning simultaneously leaving none on patrol. On 1 October 1939, Karl Dönitz became a Konteradmiral...
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  • service with Third World navies. The RN's last boats built in any number were the Dark-class fast patrol boats of the mid-1950s; Coastal Forces was reduced...
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    also commonly used as maritime patrol aircraft and air-sea rescue, particularly during times of conflict. Flying boats such as the PBY Catalina and Short...
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    Gunboat (redirect from Gun boat)
    built of aluminum; and Assault Support Patrol Boats (ASPB) built of steel. U.S. Coast Guard 82-foot (25 m) Point-class cutters supplemented these US Navy...
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    Classes of speedboats in the inventory include: Boghammar or Tareq class (IISS estimates c.40 operational in 2020) Zulfighar class air-defence boat Ashura...
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    German submarine U-96 (1940) (category U-boats commissioned in 1940)
    U-96 patrol "U-boat Archive - U-boat KTB - U-96 third War Patrol". Retrieved 13 April 2017. "U-boat Archive - U-boat KTB - U-96 seventh War Patrol". Retrieved...
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    USS Swordfish (SS-193) (category Sargo-class submarines)
    back up, where she wallowed on the surface, only to have a Japanese patrol boat close on her. She regained power in the nick of time and dived. At around...
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    destroying a U-boat. To maximise the amount of daylight for patrols, takeoffs would be made before dawn and landings would take place in darkness at night....
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    German submarine U-2322 (category U-boats commissioned in 1944)
    Type XXIII U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in 1944. U-2322 was one of just a few such boats to undertake an operational patrol, and one of...
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    Texas Highway Patrol. Davis class patrol boat List of law enforcement agencies in Texas State police State patrol Highway patrol "Highway Patrol Service |...
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