1.   But lifeguards on a patrol boat sent to the area could not locate the whale.

2.   Small patrol boats sped along the shore.

3.   The big patrol boat cut its engines as it drew level, and the grey-painted military hull sank down into the water.

4.   Their lead over the patrol boat was down to two hundred yards.

5.   They saw the patrol boat turn and head towards them.

6.   Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat.

7.   The conference also agreed to a new co-operation arrangement on fisheries surveillance allowing patrol boats to arrest illegal fishermen in the territorial waters of another member state.

8.   Almost immediately they are stopped by a Chinese patrol boat demanding the bag.

9.   And the Navy plans to provide the Coast Guard with up to seven Cyclone-class coastal patrol boats to enahance maritime security.

10.   And, let it be quietly added, demonstrators are less likely to get shot by patrol boats than by politically guided infantrymen.