home waters

They may sense they're not in their home waters yet.

For the moment they can say that they're operating in home waters.

They are in their home waters, and we're operating without any notice to them.

She spent the rest of the war patrolling in Home waters with the group.

Next day she got underway for her new home waters, the Pacific.

The British force returned to home waters without loss or damage.

But next weekend, for the first time since 1904, club members plan to compete on their home waters.

For those whose home waters have been fished out it'll be devastating.

A slow, quiet run for their home waters might get them back to mainland China.

The 45-member team has been training for months in their home waters and in Europe.

Besides these are his home waters; he could easily give us the slip.

She returned to home waters for the first time in four war patrols on 18 November 1943.

She was never to see German home waters again.

Nevertheless the proportion in home waters was still roughly 1 to 8.

They were still close to Chinese home waters and he didn't want to risk detection again.

She was retained in Japanese home waters for most of 1943 on training duties.

She spent the war years in home waters and the North Atlantic.

The yacht was approaching home waters and would dock that evening.

This close to their home waters, the Kilo's captain had felt safe doing so.

Meanwhile, the ship's company went on leave, many having been away from home waters for eleven of the past twelve months.

As the Dutch home waters were so shallow building very heavy ships was out of the question.

She served in the Mediterranean and later in home waters.

But that, too, he credits to his home waters.

As July ended, the Japanese no longer had any home waters.

Defending their homelands and home waters, they could not be beaten.