In Peacetime
In peacetime, boarding allows authorized inspectors of one nation or group, such as a Coast Guard or an international policing fleet (e.g. United Nations fleet) to examine a ship's cargo in a search for drugs, weapons, passengers which are unrecorded on the ship's manifest, or any other type of contraband that could possibly have been carried aboard. A nation's Coast Guard could also board any suspicious ships that have been overfishing in such a nation's territorial waters.
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A French sloop near an RFA prior to performing a "visit, board, search and seizure" operation
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A team of Fusiliers Marins launches on a Rigid-hulled inflatable boat
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Royal Navy (British) sailors guard the crew of an Iraqi oil tanker in 2002
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“The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)