home port

Example Sentences

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Both vessels are in a shipyard in Mobile, Ala., and not at their home ports, according to the ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Truxtun left its home port of Norfolk, Va., on Feb. 6 to begin its scheduled deployment.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its home port stated as the southern Russian city of Sochi on the Black Sea.

From BBC

Then it went back to its home port and reloaded for its third and final voyage of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal

The battle took place in their home port, where supplies and reinforcements were readily available.

From Literature