homeportv.
/ˈhəʊmpɔːt/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌpɔrt/ 1. intransitive. Of a ship, sailor, etc.: to be based in a particular port. Frequently with in, at.In quot. 1910 in extended use.
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1910 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 3 Feb. 3/3 They will sell real estate to the trusting remittance men who homeport there.
1914 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 30 Mar. 1/1 These include three new coast survey vessels to be built on this coast and homeport in Seattle, and to be used in improving navigation in Alaska waters.
1932 Los Angeles Times 15 Sept. i. 13/1 Jobs can be spread to employ an additional 1000 seamen, now idle, on ships home-porting on this Coast.
1960 Rev. Politics 22 303 The behavior of the Royal Navy men who ‘home-ported’ at Newport was deplorable and quasi-piratical.
1997 J. A. Somer Ticonderoga 172/2 They spent summers in New England.., where they homeported in Newport, or in the Chesapeake.
2008 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 26 Jan. 55 The 90,000-ton Queen Victoria..will homeport in Southampton.
2. transitive. To base (a ship, sailor, etc.) in a particular port. Frequently with in, at. Usually in passive.
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1940 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 June c30/2 The palatial ship, and six more of similar design will be home-ported in San Francisco Bay.
1977 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 17 Jan. 43 The vessel will be home ported in the Black Sea.
1990 D. J. Calvert Harrier (‘Aircraft Illustr.’ Special) 37/3 This ship is home-ported at Rota, where the naval base included the air station.
2000 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 14 May a1 Ten nuclear-missile submarines and nearly 6,000 sailors are homeported at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Southeast Georgia.
2009 J. E. Miller U.S. & Making of Mod. Greece vii. 168 Nixon approved a U.S. Navy plan to ‘homeport’ an aircraft carrier, six destroyers, and support ships in Athens.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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