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You have time to get to one rock in your patrol-boat and save everyone on it.
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Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega had no significant air force, no tanks and only a patrol-boat navy.
Inside The Invasion 2008
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As he campaigns for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator John F. Kerry often cites his experience as a U.S. Navy patrol-boat skipper in Vietnam as a formative element of his character.
Tour of Duty 2003
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As he campaigns for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator John F. Kerry often cites his experience as a U.S. Navy patrol-boat skipper in Vietnam as a formative element of his character.
Tour of Duty 2003
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The sailors on the patrol-boat crowded around the speaker, glad of any excitement to break the monotony of their vigil.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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We had almost given up hope of reaching the land when, in a smother of foam and spray, there appeared a patrol-boat, the commander of which asked in his breezy naval way who we were and what the blazes we thought we were doing.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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His practised eyes discerned the shadowy forms of watchers squatting along the beach; beyond, the patrol-boat moved about restlessly, and in the distance twinkled the lights of Zamboanga.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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Row over toward the patrol-boat, and I'll warn them to watch carefully to-night in case he tries to escape.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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It was not the _Capella_ that had come off second-best in an encounter with a floating mine, but another, similar in almost every respect to the lost patrol-boat.
The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917
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_Capella_, the patrol-boat was nowhere to be seen.
The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917
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