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the port from which a ship originates of where it is registered

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China later reversed the decision but the warship and its support ships had already left for its home port Yokosuka.
aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk will return to its home port of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday after a nearly two-month tour of duty in the western Pacific, the U.S.
In the past, we deployed teams from single battalions, constraining our ability to maintain operations at home port locations.
The wreck of Russia's Kursk submarine, hoisted from the Arctic seabed in a painstaking operation, was hauled to its home port yesterday, more than a year after its sinking killed all 118 crew on board.
It was in its home port of Bremerton, Washington, in January 1996.
He and MacIsaac are currently looking to use genetic analyses to locate the invading fleas' home port in Europe.
If officials at the Jacksonville Port Authority and the Economic Development Commission have any influence, the River City will become a cruise ship port of call or a home port.
At Grand Haven, Mich., once the cutter's home port, there is a memorial park and museum honoring the Escanaba.
The Royal yacht Britannia yesterday returned to her home port of Portsmouth for the last time to a huge welcome.
Serious pursuit of a means of fixing longitude began in 1707, after four British frigates ran aground in fog near their home port owing to total east-west disorientation, with the loss of nearly 2,000 men.
Mayor Dianne Feinstein was so enthusiastic about the plan to make San Francisco a home port that she vetoed a Board of Supervisors resolution opposing it.
She will sail her maiden voyage from Barcelona on April 2, then reposition to the US late May for sailings to Bermuda and the Caribbean from New York, before moving to her home port Miami in September.
CROWDS of people gathered to see the Royal Navy's new PS3 billion aircraft carrier depart from its home port for the first time.
Britain's most advanced and biggest warship, the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier HMSQueen Elizabeth, berthed for the first time at its home port of Portsmouth on Tuesday.