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“In 1964, the USS Cadmus moved her homeport to Newport, RI.”
“The report also recommends that one carrier should be based in Mayport Naval Station in Florida — a homeport preference that will renew a heated political battle between the Florida and Virginia delegations in Congress.”
Matthew Yglesias » Nobody Wants to Lose an Aircraft Carrier for Their State
“Faller, speaking from the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Arabian Sea, said the fishermen, who had been living off the fish they could catch, expressed their thanks and are believed to be headed back to their homeport in Iran.”
The Huffington Post: US Navy: Iran Fishing Boat Rescued From Suspected Pirates
“The homeport of "Newport" is also painted on the stern, just below the name "Isabel.”
“For an extreme example, I have also read that the blockading power can intercept the neutral ship at any point on its trip home, so long as they get to it before it reaches its homeport.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
“Under heavy economic pressure, London agrees to cancel the U.S. lease on its Indian Ocean island base of Diego Garcia, while Canberra, pressured by the Chinese, informs Washington that the Seventh Fleet is no longer welcome to use Fremantle as a homeport, effectively evicting the U.S.”
“The upshot of the whole incident to us sailors however was that the brass decided to hold some hastily arranged exercises in maintaining radio and electronic silence, thus causing us to be a day late in making homeport after almost 7 months away.”
“Under heavy economic pressure, London agrees to cancel the U.S. lease on its Indian Ocean island base of Diego Garcia, while Canberra, pressured by the Chinese, informs Washington that the Seventh Fleet is no longer welcome to use Fremantle as a homeport, effectively evicting the U.S. Navy from the Indian Ocean.”
“There may be a pattern to this and I hope that ships like the Liberty can find out where these patterns are, and I hope that one of them with poor communications is not my homeport.”
“The gold and silver coming from the mines of the Americas made Seville, the homeport of the treasure fleet, the economic center of and primary money market in Continental Europe during the middle of the 16th century.20 Here we have a place where there was a large circulation of money and a high price level.”
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