The festival originated in 1952 and added the Naval Port Festival to its celebrations in 1963.

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There is even a plan for a naval port in Nanisivik, in the territory of Nunavut, and up to eight Arctic patrol vessels to fly the flag in the increasingly ice-free far north.

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The Pacific Battleship Center, a nonprofit organization established in 2009, has been awarded ownership of the USS IOWA by the U.S. Navy for display as an interactive naval museum at Port of Los Angeles Berth 87.

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This year, however, across-the-board federal spending cuts will keep most ships out of port, naval officials said Thursday.

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Syria is one of the largest recipients of Russian military equipment, Jouejati said, and Russia leases a naval facility at the Syrian port of Tartus, giving the Russian navy its only direct access to the Mediterranean.

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Naval boats will patrol access to the port while fighter jets will monitor the skies.

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Now Hutchison Ports, part of Mr Li's Hutchison Whampoa group, has been blocked from tendering for a port project near an Indian naval base in Mumbai.

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The same day, and again on Wednesday, airforce planes supported by naval artillery pulverised rebel positions near the northern port of Trincomalee.

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But I heard that one of the British naval ships is there at - I mean, at the port in Grand Turk.

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It has energy projects to protect in Syria and naval interests too: it would like to see the Syrian port of Tartus once again serve as a base for Russian ships as it did in Soviet times.

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