Home port

{{short description|Port at which a ship or boat is based}}

{{Other|Home Port (disambiguation)}}

Image:Stern of Bro Elisabeth.jpg lettered beneath the ship name on the stern]]

A vessel's home port is the port at which it is based, which may not be the same as its port of registry{{cite web |url = http://www.wcoomd.org/files/1.%20Public%20files/PDFandDocuments/Conventions/naireng[1].pdf |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101203161217/http://www.wcoomd.org/files/1.%20Public%20files/PDFandDocuments/Conventions/naireng%5B1%5D.pdf |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2010-12-03 |title = INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON MUTUAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR THE PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION AND REPRESSION OF CUSTOMS OFFENCES }} shown on its registration documents{{cite web |url = http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&view_records=1&uid=default&Term=port |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928205346/http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&view_records=1&uid=default&Term=port |url-status = usurped |archive-date = September 28, 2007 | title = Nautical Dictionary, Glossary and Terms Directory | last = MacKenzie | first = Mike | year = 2005–2007 | access-date = 2007-04-13}} and lettered on the stern of the ship's hull.{{cite web|publisher=United States Government |title=Title 46, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 67.123 |url=http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=08b11a85ee90d38de960b99922a3e8ab&rgn=div8&view=text&node=46:2.0.1.3.23.9.1.3&idno=46 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004115955/http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=3395ede56b1b19f9b6bbcdb9b81feb8b&rgn=div8&view=text&node=46:2.0.1.3.23.9.1.3&idno=46 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-10-04 |access-date=2007-04-17 }} In the cruise industry the term "home port" is also often used in reference to the port in which a ship will take on / change over the majority of its passengers while taking on stores, supplies and fuel.{{cite web|url=http://www.cruiseportlandmaine.com/cruise-directors/port-facts/home-porting/|title=Home Porting - Cruise Portland|website=cruiseportlandmaine.com|access-date=2015-12-15|archive-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509183433/http://www.cruiseportlandmaine.com/cruise-directors/port-facts/home-porting/|url-status=dead}}