Botetourt disembarked her marine contingent at Morehead City on 30 September and reentered Norfolk immediately thereafter.

The marine contingent more than doubled on Wednesday, to 1,100.

The consulate quietly leased a house in Victoria Peak, and a second marine contingent was flown over from Hawaii for guard duty.

"She talked a great deal about the Hamorian cruisers, their draft, their guns, their displacement, their armor, their marine contingents, and their proximity to Summerdock."

The boarding ladder was thrown over the side, and the Chinese marines, led by a naval lieutenant and a captain of the marine contingent, quickly scrambled from their boat onto the deck.

Now it was half-collapsed-not by gunfire but simply by the spears and swords of the first marine contingent.

Barnstable County picked up her marine contingent at Morehead City on the 2d and arrived at Colón, Panama in Panama on the 6th.

With the marine contingent down and the rest of the team in the store, the terrorists made their way into the bowels of the building, shooting anyone and anything that moved.

Medieval China, Korea, and Japan were also dependent on boarding tactics, with the flat expanse of a ship used as a battleground for the marine contingents on the ships.

For this purpose on transport ships, a large marine contingent would be kept in reserve, to be employed when the opportunity arose.