1.   But one of the Iraqis on the tug was hit by a rifle butt when he resisted the boarding party.

2.   Patzert and his passengers could see a boarding party forming on the deck of the destroyer.

3.   The British captain is almost comically sporting, requesting politely that the rogues receive a boarding party, then seeming affronted by the rebuff.

4.   The Sitkinak was to rendezvous with the boat and send over a boarding party to investigate.

5.   We gape with the rest of the rubes as cannons belch, boarding parties get ready.

6.   Crew on the Stadive failed to lift a boarding party onto the Brent Spar by crane, he said.

7.   Five Indonesian crewmen and two members of a navy boarding party were rescued unharmed from the water by the HMAS Cessnock, a navy spokesman said.

8.   They were overpowered by Chinese crew members, who stabbed one Taiwanese and knocked Chuang unconscious with blows to his head, according to members of the boarding party.

9.   A boarding party from the Royal Navy warship HMS Brilliant, which assisted the operation, boarded the Woodleigh, arrested five men and recovered more cannabis.

10.   Both were restrained by members of a naval boarding party.