When the sailors boarded, they found 10 tons of valuable bonito tuna in the refrigerated hold.

The yacht rocked as two sailors boarded carrying a large piece of equipment slung to a pole between them.

According to some accounts the action lasted for around three hours before the British sailors dismasted the pirate frigate and boarded.

At 11:52 am, American sailors boarded the Frolic to find that every British officer and over half the crew, 90 men, were wounded or dead.

When they arrived back at shore the sailors and marines boarded their ships and then sailed back to China having failed to complete their objectives.

The frigate's sailors boarded more than 100 merchant ships in efforts to prevent cargo shipments to or from Iraq.

Grappling hooks were thrown and the British sailors boarded the sloop.

The sailors immediately boarded buses to a hotel.

Thirty soldiers and some sailors then boarded it, taking possession of the forecastle and after-cabin and capturing the Dutch standard.

British sailors boarded Frankfurt and beached her before she could sink.