31.   The two admirals spoke separately while aboard the Abraham Lincoln as it shifted home ports from Bremerton, Wash., to Everett, Wash., on Wednesday.

32.   Their home ports range from Gloucester to North Carolina.

33.   Then there was the matter of coping with the skepticism that abounded in their new home port.

34.   This is a big home port for re-enactment groups, current festivals, new discoveries and, yes, pirate chat rooms.

35.   To help quicken its economic pulse, business leaders are aggressively promoting the downtown water district as a home port for cruise ships.

36.   Two centuries ago, Cape Cod was the bustling home port for whaling vessels.

37.   Until that time, the Soviet Navy had rarely conducted prolonged operations at sea far from home ports, he noted.

38.   Washington asked permission to send the powerful cutter through the passage in July on its maiden voyage to its home port in Seattle.

39.   A third ship on its way from England to its home port in Calais had to be directed to the French port of Dunkirk.

40.   Before St. Croix could become a home port, however, infrastructure improvements would be necessary.