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Article: NT: Australian Navy patrol boat sinks Indon fishing vessel
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- October 12, 2002
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NT: Australian Navy patrol boat sinks Indon fishing vessel
By Rod McGuirk
DARWIN, Oct 12 AAP - An Australian Navy patrol boat rammed and
sank an Indonesian fishing
vessel in territorial waters early today, a defence spokesman said.
HMAS Geraldton was patrolling within the Australian Fisheries Zone
when it collided
with the wooden vessel near Margaret Harry Banks, north of Darwin
about 3am, the spokesman
said.
The five Indonesian crew were rescued without injury and the patrol
boat was not damaged,
the spokesman said.
The spokesman would not say whether the collision was deliberate
or accidental.
A naval ...