Hampton Roads
Beginning in 1917, as the United States became involved in World War I under President Woodrow Wilson, formerly rural Sewell's Point became the site of what grew to become the largest Naval Base in the world which was established by the United States Navy and is now known as the Naval Station Norfolk.
Garden Island (Western Australia)
The Royal Australian Navy's largest fleet base, Fleet Base West, also called HMAS "Stirling", are on the shores of Careening Bay, on the southeastern section of Garden Island, facing Cockburn Sound. people lived at the Garden Island base.