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Example sentences for "neutral port"

  • But he was blameworthy in attacking a ship in a neutral port, and it would not take many such victories to ruin his reputation.

  • I could not take her into any neutral port, even for landing the passengers, as this was forbidden, by those unfriendly orders in council I have more than once spoken of, and I had no room for the passengers on board the Alabama.

  • Others have based their arguments on the fact that the Trent had quitted a neutral port to repair to a neutral port.

  • And I instanced the case of Commodore Porter, his prizes lost, and his own ship eventually captured in a neutral port, because we had no port of our own to receive and shelter him.

  • And if she had been--had been a war-vessel belonging to the insurgents, and fighting for them, she could not be attacked in a neutral port.

  • Two destroyers went ashore near Wei-hai-wei and were abandoned; and one destroyer entered Chifu Harbor and was there seized by the Japanese and made a prize, in defiance of respect for a neutral port.

  • When exporting articles to neutral ports the shipper must deposit with the Customs security equal to the value of the cargo, as a guarantee that the cargo shall not be reshipped from a neutral port to Japanese or Korean ports.

  • They must be respected by the belligerents, they may not be captured while hostilities last, and they are not on the same footing as men-of-war during their stay in a neutral port.

  • But the case of a temporary stay of a belligerent man-of-war with her prize in a neutral port is different.

  • Though an innovation, the extension of the British blockade to a surveillance of merchandise passing in and out of a neutral port contiguous to Germany was not for that reason impermissible.

  • The application for coal at a neutral port was in itself a renunciation of any further hospitality from the harbour, as Captain Semmes was aware.

  • Thirdly, that when opposite belligerents meet by accident in a neutral port, if one of them departs therefrom, the other is bound to wait twenty-four hours before departing.

  • It would be disastrous if shipowners and insurers were to assume, that a neutral vessel, if destined for a neutral port, is necessarily safe from capture.

  • In general a belligerent vessel has the =right of asylum= in a neutral port.


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