Only the captain and a few officers would have been told what the goodwill visit was really all about.
The PM arranges for it to make a "goodwill visit".
However, Khan first choose to pay a goodwill visit to United States.
Unlike modern goodwill visits, her port calls frequently could be measured in terms of weeks and months rather than days.
During each, she conducted training exercises and made goodwill visits to Far Eastern ports.
Anan said in a press conference that he was making "basically a goodwill visit".
She had encountered a typhoon on the way back from a goodwill visit to Japan in 1890.
However, she also made goodwill visits and liberty calls at ports all along the Mediterranean coastline.
The ship also paid a goodwill visit to Male in October 1989.
But border authorities could, at discretion, accept a "goodwill visit."