seabase
nounEtymology From sea + base.
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A collection of support and supply ships supporting operations elsewhere, that can function as a floating barracks, hospital and base.
- We operated from a seabase, reducing our footprint ashore and thereby minimizing our force protection requirements […]2002. Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 by U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Page 154 http://books.google.com/books?id=BcUzAAAAIAAJ&dq=seabase&ei=Kdo7R9vpO4WasgOvypGkBw&pgis=1