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What does WPC stand for?

Patrol Craft (United States Coast Guard)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
President Lee Myung-Bak called an emergency meeting of security ministers as his Prime Minister Chung Un-Chan accused the North of making a "direct attack" on a high-speed patrol craft.
The Transpetro contract is the latest in a series of recent orders to supply navigation systems for new ships being built in Brazil, including offshore supply vessels and military patrol craft.
The navy's patrol craft have recently inflicted heavy loses to enemy cadre and their vessels.
It said four more rebel craft in the area supporting the weapons-carrying ship were also attacked by navy patrol craft, but there were no details of casualties.
Each Navy unit has a training vessel, usually a turbocharged fast patrol craft fitted with the most up-to-date equipment needed for navigation.
Lance Corporal Jake Watson, 17, described how their rigid fast patrol craft, carrying eight youths and four adults, started filling up with water before overturning.
Kaylee McIntosh, 14, died after the fast patrol craft she was in capsized on Loch Carnan, South Uist, on a training exercise last August.
Possibly the worst case is that of a "new" maritime patrol craft - which is now 92 months behind schedule and whose purchase cost has gone nearly pounds 800m over budget to over pounds 3.

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