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Port for naval ships and other assets
A
naval base
,
navy base
, or
military port
is a
military base
, where
warships
and
naval ships
are docked when they have no mission at sea or need to restock. Ships may also undergo repairs. Some naval bases are temporary homes to
aircraft
that usually stay on ships but are undergoing maintenance while the ship is in port.
In the
United States
, the
United States Department of the Navy
's General Order No. 135 issued in 1911 as a formal guide to naval terminology described a naval station as "any establishment for building, manufacturing, docking, repair, supply, or training under control of the Navy. It may also include several establishments". A naval base, by contrast, was "a point from which naval operations may be conducted".
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In most countries, naval bases are expressly named and identified as such.
One peculiarity of the
Royal Navy
and certain other navies which closely follow British naval traditions is the concept of the
stone frigate
: a naval base on land that is named like a ship. Certain facilities were often initially housed on
hulks
as a cost-saving measure and were later moved to land but kept their traditional names.
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References
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Strauss, Michael J. (2009).
The leasing of Guantanamo Bay
. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International. p. 65.
ISBN
9780313377839
.