11.   The navy uses the gunboats to patrol the coastline, rivers and lagoons to stop the Tamils running arms into the country.

12.   He said the navy used two boats with another boat from the coastguard and frogmen manning marine pollution equipment to try to contain the spill.

13.   The Japanese navy uses domestic-built flying boats in rescue operations.

14.   The Indonesian navy is using several missile-equipped destroyers to guard its territorial waters around the Natuna islands in the South China Sea, reports said here Friday.