The basic rule regarding a take-over of an opponent's ships in a conquered area with an adjacent port is found at p.25 of the play rules and reads as following:

If the land area connected to a Port is successfully attacked and taken control of by another player, that player may immediately replace any enemy Ship units in the Port with an equal number of his own available Ship units (or as many Ship units as he has available, he desires, or is allowed by supply limits). Excess enemy ships are simply removed from the board.
The problem of our forum's variant of the 2nd. edition's game is that it became implemented as an add-on of the 1st. edition but was not set up as a genuinely independent game. Like ports, many other "later" features were only added in a bugful trial and error process which is lasting until today. Especially ports as a special area on the board still cause issues - be it the this thread initiating pop-up window that sometimes occur and sometimes not, or the accomplishing of a take-over of ships one would have the resources for.

Will still take some time, but we're on a promising path, we assume.

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