homeport

noun

1. The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).

verb

1. To assign a vessel a port to act as its home.

   “The good news from the Ad Hoc Committee for a Safe Boston Harbor is the Navy has decided not to homeport the Iowa Battleship Task Force, complete with sea-launch cruise nukes, in Boston Harbor. The bad news from the Committee is the Navy has offered Boston two frigates armed with tactical nuclear weapons as a "booby prize."”