An anchor frequently appears on the flags and coats of arms of institutions involved with the sea, both naval and commercial, as well as of port cities and seacoast regions and provinces in various countries.

The port of Djibouti functions as a small French naval facility, and the United States also has stationed hundreds of troops in Djibouti, its only African base, in an effort to counter terrorism in the region.

Currently, approximately 170 soldiers of the JGSDF and the JMSDF are currently stationed in Djibouti, with their base and naval port recently opening in July 2011.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

As of 2009, this custom is still taken seriously by many naval and port authorities and is readily enforced in many parts of the world by boarding, confiscation and other civil penalties.

In 293, Constantius Chlorus launched a second offensive, besieging the rebel's port at Boulogne and cutting it off from naval assistance.

At sea naval defeats against British fleets at Lagos and Quiberon Bay in 1759 and a crippling blockade forced France to keep its ships in port.

Italian naval strategists eyed the port of Vlorë and the island of Sazan at the entrance to the Bay of Vlorë with considerable interest, as it would give Italy control of the entrance to the Adriatic Sea.

Kagoshima was targeted because of its largely expanded naval port as well as its position as a railway terminus.

The United States naval port of Pearl Harbor, located on the south coast of the main Hawaiian island of Oahu, is one of a complex of sea inlets.

Octavian's loyal and talented general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa captured the Greek city and naval port of Methone, loyal to Antony.

* 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.

Raymond of Tripoli denounced the truce, but was compelled to accept after an Ayyubid raid in his territory in May and upon the appearance of Saladin's naval fleet off the port of Tartus.

After the Roman conquest of the Nabataean Empire and the Roman naval presence at Aden to curb piracy, Arab merchants barred Indian merchants from trading in the free port cities of the Arabian Peninsula because of the nearby Roman presence.

* 1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.

** Battle of Sinop, 1853 naval battle in the Sinop port

The small number of ships may be attributed to Tanzania's few exports, the relative insufficiency of its coast guard and naval forces, and Tanzania's single major port facility in Dar es Salaam.

The first working prototype of the modern self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by Giovanni Luppis (), an Austrian naval officer from Fiume ( now called Rijeka ), a port city of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ( modern Croatia ), and Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a town factory.

The first European prototypes of a self-propelled torpedo were created by Giovanni Luppis, an Austrian naval officer from Fiume ( today Rijeka, Croatia ), a port city of the Austrian Empire.

While in port, Harding reviewed the U. S. naval fleet and visited the Bell Street Pier.

The presence of these British troops, coupled with General Clinton's desire for a port there, made control of the Chesapeake Bay an essential naval objective.

Russia ’ s main Pacific port and naval base of Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners, bristles with Chinese markets, restaurants and trade houses.

When buccaneers raided towns, they did not sail into port and bombard the defenses, as naval forces typically did.

The military port of Toulon is the major naval centre on France's Mediterranean coast, home of the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle and her battle group.

Powell himself stayed at the Hotel du Port et des Negociants on two occasions in the early 1930s and writes in the second volume of his memoirs The naval port, with its small inner harbour, row of cafes along the rade, was quite separate from the business quarter of the town.

* HMAS Cerberus the area of the naval base is a bounded locality

* HMAS Adelaide, one of several Australian naval vessels

* HMAS Derwent, a naval base and a warship of the Royal Australian Navy

" On 6 October 2001 Laura Whittle was a naval gunner on HMAS Adelaide ( FFG 01 ) under orders to implement a new border protection policy when they encoutered the SIEV-4 ( Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel-4 ) refugee boat in choppy seas.

Boarding operations continued during the war, and on 20 March boarding parties from HMAS Kanimbla seized an Iraqi ship carrying 86 naval mines.

Some Royal Australian Navy Aircraft Technicians assigned to the naval air station HMAS Albatross are based at RAAF Base Wagga as an Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Trials Unit ( AMAFTU ).

Names reserved for capital ships include chiefs of state ( e. g. Bismarck ), important places ( e. g. HMAS Australia ), historically important naval officers or admiralty ( e. g. De Ruyter ), historical events ( e. g. USS Constitution ), traditional names ( e. g. HMS Ark Royal ).

Three ships and a naval base of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Brisbane after Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland.

* HMAS Albatross ( air station ), a naval aviation base at Nowra, New South Wales, which was opened in 1948 and is active as of 2012

* HMAS Lonsdale, a ship and a naval depot of the Royal Australian Navy

* HMAS Yarra, name of Australian naval ships

* 1994: HMAS Huon naval base decommissioned

* HMAS Penguin, the Royal Australian Navy's primary naval base on the east coast of Australia, located on Garden Island in Sydney, was known as HMAS Penguin until it was renamed in January 1943.

* HMAS Penguin II, naval base at Balmoral, New South Wales, until renamed in January 1943

The naval air station HMAS Albatross is located about south-west of Nowra.

HMAS Cerberus currently host to the following naval training schools

Located near the station is the naval base HMAS Cerberus.

In 1994, HMAS Nirimba, a naval training property on the western side of the suburb, was decommissioned and converted into an educational precinct.

The western side of the railway line predominantly has houses on standard residential blocks, some built when HMAS Nirimba was an active naval base, others through the 1960s and 1970s.

Less than a month later, Houston and the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth ( D29 ) were directed to proceed to Ceylon where they were supposed to attack Japanese naval supply lines.

* HMAS Basilisk, a naval base

Australian naval hero, Captain Hector McDonald Laws Waller, captain of HMAS Perth, was named after him.

The Australian naval ship HMAS Kanimbla, having only recently left Aceh, was redeployed to the region from Singapore.