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home port
noun
the port where a ship is registered.
the port out of which a ship is operated but not necessarily registered.
Word History and Origins
Origin of home port1
Example Sentences
Navy operations, building ships through World War II, and making Long Beach a sailors’ town, the home port for the Pacific Fleet.
The Germans withdrew to their home ports, where they remained, largely inactive, until the war ended.
HMS Trent left its home port of Gibraltar in early December for Guyana in a show of diplomatic and military support for the former British colony.
HMS Trent left its home port of Gibraltar in early December and is currently alongside in Bridgetown, Barbados for Christmas.
The home port for the USS Florida and the USS Georgia is the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in southeast Georgia near the Florida border.
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