31.   The Philippines has sent a navy patrol ship to guard a South China Sea shoal from Chinese incursions, Defense Secretary Renato de Villa said Sunday.

32.   The patrol ships were part of a seven-ship contingent traveling west, it said.

33.   The St.Petersburg-based Central Maritime Design Office said it would start building the new Skorpion patrol ship next year using stealth technology that will help it elude radar.

34.   They found by a navy patrol ship earlier this month in the Madura strait, a narrow waterway between Java and Madura island.

35.   They were chased out by South Korean patrol ships.

36.   Tobin calls the fishing an attempt to bait Canadian patrol ships and scuttle an agreement.

37.   He declined to say how many patrol ships had been dispatched to the area.

38.   He declined to say how many patrol ships have been dispatched to the area.

39.   Instead of firing missiles from the coast, Iran can now launch them from patrol ships.

40.   A navy patrol ship and other passing vessels managed to rescue many of those on board as the ferry burned.