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stationnaire

 
     
  stationnaire


A small warship or gunboat stationed by a state at a foreign port chiefly for the protection of its citizens residing there. Usually they were put at the disposal of the ambassador. The years before the First World War were the heyday of the stationnaire, or ‘guardship’ as they were also known.
 
 

 

 

 
 
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