How to Use homeport in a Sentence

homeport

1 of 2 verb
  • The ship will homeport in Singapore and mark its first to sail in Southeast Asia.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • The sailing was also the first Norwegian cruise to homeport in Athens.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2021
  • Panorama will be the first new ship to homeport in Southern California in more than two decades.
    — Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Silversea is the only cruise line that homeports from Puerto Williams during the Antarctica season.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • So in the winter, 14 vessels started homeporting in San Juan — four more than the previous season.
    — Chabeli Herrera, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Icon will homeport in Miami with its first sailing in January 2024.
    — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The ship will be homeported in Seattle for the summer season and is the largest to dock on the West Coast at 1,138-feet long.
    — Greg Gilbert, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2019
  • Royal Caribbean International will homeport a ship in San Diego for the first time.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Silversea is currently the only cruise line with ships that homeport in Puerto Williams during the Antarctica season.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Round-trip journeys will embark from Singapore, making the Disney Adventure the cruise line’s first ship to homeport in Asia.
    — Karla Cripps, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The Transportation Department said the ship is homeported in the state and offers cruise itineraries that keep it in the Hawaiian islands.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Carnival Fantasy, which is homeported in Mobile, remains on its regular schedule and is set to arrive this weekend in Mobile.
    — al.com, 11 July 2019
  • That means some of the newest and largest vessels like Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas – which will homeport there beginning in 2027 – can sail from there.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • The Munro, homeported in Alameda, in Northern California, is tasked with seizing drugs in international waters.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • The second new Disney Cruise Line ship to debut in 2025 will be the Disney Adventure, which will homeport in Singapore.
    — Megan Dubois, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Additionally, in December 2025, Disney Cruise Line will launch the Disney Adventure, a new mega-ship that will homeport in Singapore.
    — Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Set to homeport in Miami beginning in June 2027, the 169,000-gross-ton Norwegian Aura is the third Prima Plus-class ship following the Aqua and the forthcoming Luna, which will debut out of Miami in April.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Marella Discovery 2 will homeport in Tenerife and Grand Canary Island in Spain between November 2027 and March 2028, before moving to Málaga from March until April 2028.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 30 June 2026

home port

2 of 2 noun
  • Once the crisis is over, the surviving ships could sea train back to their home port.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2020
  • Most of the ships serviced at the base have San Diego as their home port.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Long Beach was the home port for that Navy destroyer.
    — Daily News, 25 May 2026
  • By now, the ship should have arrived at its home port in Florida.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The fleet is split between two home ports on the East and West Coasts.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • That will mark the first time the line has made Port Canaveral a home port for one of its ships.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Its home port is Toronto, Canada.
    — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The ship was seized but soon allowed to leave, a deal that allowed the steamer to return to its home port.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Even in the regions where cruising has recommenced, most ships aren't straying too far from their home port.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 27 June 2021
  • Soon, Sonora state and local officials hope to make the dock a home port for cruise ships.
    — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The crew of Burmese and Chinese sailors will sail back to home port in China.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Between stops around the world, the ocean liner returns to Brooklyn, its home port.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The base is the home port for 10 destroyers and 15 submarines.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The base is the home port for 10 destroyers and 15 submarines.
    — Caleb Jones, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The base is the home port for 10 destroyers and 15 submarines.
    — chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • After April 22, the ship will return to her home port in San Diego.
    — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Fitzgerald is now on its way to the new home port of San Diego, California.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2020
  • Not long after that the Folly will be moved to San Francisco, its new home port.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The ship left its home port of San Diego on Tuesday, defense officials said.
    — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Not only are there multiple home ports throughout the south to choose from, but there are also a handful of ships sailing from these ports.
    — Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The four ships sail from home ports around the world, from Europe to North America to Asia.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The identity of the North Korean ship had been masked with a Chinese name and home port.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The ship, Mariner of the Seas, left from its home port of Miami for its first voyage on Monday.
    — Renae Reints, Fortune, 26 June 2018
  • There is so much to do, see, and eat on the ship that even the seven-night sailings from its home port in Port Canaveral may not be enough to do it all.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This stop will assess what can be fixed immediately and what requires attention at its home port in Norfolk.
    — Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The crew still on the ship, which has been home ported in San Francisco for 13 years, will not be allowed to leave the vessel.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Fishermen carry fish from their boats to Playita Mia in Manta, which was the home port of two ships that sank in March.
    — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • The former is the familiar 1982 home port, complete with crunchy sound effects and very, very simple visuals.
    — PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Lawson plans to soon sail the boat through the Panama Canal, up the Atlantic coast to his home port of Baltimore, where it will be hauled out.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2023
  • These unique one-way sailings generally occur at the beginning or end of a cruising season (typically in the spring or fall) when ships need to return to their home ports.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2026

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