The small boat appeared to be headed for that port, the Defense Department officials said, adding that their information was preliminary.
While the Navy has used drones before for mine clearing and other defensive tasks, the small boat (similar to that pictured above) is the first experiment to involve true offensive capabilities.
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The officials, who would not be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation, also described the small boat as having made a series of maneuvers, but emphasized they were waiting for more details about what exactly happened.
Continuing along the path, you will reach Kalasadam, the small fishing-boat harbour that gives the area its name (kala means fish, sadam means harbour).
Iryani also confirmed more details on the unfolding investigation into the identities of the two men aboard a small boat that exploded beside the Cole in the attack.
The passengers, migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa who included 50 men, 20 women and 2 babies, were led to the small, rubber boat by Libyan militia members.
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When the weather is good, he sails out in his small boat in the morning to catch fish for the table.
Tourist Ernst Mollemans, on the last day of his vacation and taking a boat trip from one island to another south of Phuket, narrowly escaped death or serious injury when he heard the driver scream and abruptly turn the boat toward a small beach to their left.
The only solid lead on Finnerty's whereabouts had been the discovery of a small pontoon boat he had been using in Bray Creek, near the Baldwin River, Hilts said.
Our adventure began at dawn with the sharp thrust of a trusty motor, aboard a small metal boat along the banks of Popran National Park.
SABA, citing sources in Yemen's Coast Guard, said seven other fishermen escaped on a small boat prior to the pirates' taking control of the fishing boats.
This photo, of a small boat tied to the edge of a rural canal, with still-blooming tulip fields as a backdrop, seems like the perfect comment on a season that is still just poking its head out.
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We climb into a small fishing boat, and the sound of chirping crickets gives way to the splashing and gulping of the Adriatic beneath the hull.
When the couple was spotted traveling in a small boat on a remote jungle river, Peruvian officials said they were clearly enjoying their trip and weren't aware that their families were looking for them.
Once a week, Ozturk and Dede rent a small touring boat and set out into the Bosphorus.
Officials described the course of events as standard procedures when a small boat gets too close to a U.S. Navy ship.
The vessel could also be a British two-man mini submarine - known as an X craft, a small boat or even a private yacht - one is known to have sunk in the area many years ago.
On the day I testified before the Senate Small Business Committee seeking to repeal the new luxury tax, we were able to show that a boat builder in Texas canceled his order for a new plane because of the negative impact that the tax had on his sales.
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The region is littered with small, intimate coves -- the majority of which can only be reached by foot or boat.
Lord West says the "boat-stopping system" is only a small part of what science and technology can do to help counter the terrorist threat.
In 1998, while fishing the Yellowstone River, he got an idea: There must be scads of small-town printers like me, in the same boat, as it were--big debt payments on the printing press and not enough work to pay it off.
Seery, an American expat who has spent 30 years in Indonesia, crafted the tropical-hardwood vessel herself, supervising a small army of Sulawesi boat builders.
The boat's diesel engine has even been replaced by a small outboard charged by solar panels.
The British Ministry of Defense said a British crew Tuesday had boarded a small boat that they believe was involved in an attack on a Danish-registered ship earlier that day.
Growing up in South Florida, it had become an annual ritual to travel by small boat across nearly 100 miles of open ocean to be in the Abacos at the beginning of August, when the Bahamas opens a "sport season" during which visitors are allowed to hunt the spiny lobster that live in and under the coral reefs and outcroppings in its shallow waters.
Boat captains will take shifts driving the five boats in Nyad's small armada.
"This boat is like a small city, " says Larry Perry, of the Max Seas.
Six Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Marine Enforcement Officers serving aboard the Australian Customs and Border Protection Vessel Triton, and 12 members of the Australian Defence Force serving on the patrol boat HMAS Pirie, nominated by Australia, for rescuing 41 survivors from a small wooden vessel which had smashed against rocks off Christmas Island, in December 2010, with an estimated 70 to 100 persons on board.
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