Today, weathered banana schooners chug past yachts and gargantuan passenger liners to dock in this curious tropical port, which is Guadeloupe's principal city and gateway to the world.

The reverse depicts a freighter and a battleship in a tropical port.

"The vultures that Greene had hated with their 'little idiot heads and dusty serrated wings' were circling overhead," she writes from the tropical port of Frontera.

All in all, he might have been waiting in a dreary, barracks-like building in some tropical port on Earth.

The Buffalo descended, and the town of Bumba appeared, a rotting tropical port spread out along the Congo River.

The frigate put to sea again on 2 September and headed south for a four-week assignment in the Caribbean Sea that included calls at a number of tropical ports.

When Josh's ship docks at a tropical port, a passenger complains about a terrible spot remover that disintegrated his suit jacket.

Today it runs twice-weekly from the tropical port of Townsville to the remote but interesting town of Mount Isa.

Children had already been moved from the tropical port of Darwin.

One cruise normally sails to Alaska in September, and the other to tropical ports in February.