He said the men were suspected of being on a mission to attack a naval patrol, which uses that sea route.

It was decided by the Committee that naval patrols did not justify their expense and would be replaced with observers at ports.

No warning had been given to naval patrols in the area, which were meant to be always on duty.

Still, it is not clear how effective the multinational monitors or naval patrols will be.

Some of those accomplishments include facilitating the coordination of international naval patrols.

Or being shot up by a naval patrol, or a French plane.

Within hours, the 70 were picked up by a Tunisian naval patrol, which sank the boat and sent the men to prison.

It was an unusual method of exit, but not sufficiently so to warrant investigation by any average hardened naval patrol.

Global positioning data shows that the British naval patrol was more than a mile inside Iraqi waters.

Britain also set up armed naval patrols to prevent immigrants from landing in Palestine.