List of fleets
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[edit] Chinese Fleets
[edit] French Fleets
- French Atlantic Fleet (HQ Brest)
- French Mediterranean Fleet (HQ Toulon)
- French American Squadron (HQ Martinique)
- French Indian Ocean Sqadron (HQ Réunion)
- French Pacific Fleet (HQ Papeete)
- French Channel Squadron (HQ Brest)
[edit] German fleets
[edit] Indian Fleets
[edit] Russian or Soviet fleets
Active Fleets
Inactive fleets, Soviet and Russian
[edit] United Kingdom fleets & squadrons
[edit] World War I
- British Grand Fleet
- Harwich Flotilla
- British Mediterranean Fleet
- North America and West Indies Squadron
- East Indies Squadron
- China Squadron
- Australian Squadron
[edit] World War II
[edit] United States fleets
Naval Commands
Modern US Navy fleets are numbered odd in the Pacific or West, and even in the Atlantic or East:
- United States Second Fleet (HQ Norfolk, Virginia) - North Atlantic
- United States Third Fleet (HQ San Diego, California) - East Pacific
- United States Fourth Fleet (HQ Mayport, Florida) - South Atlantic
- United States Fifth Fleet (HQ Manama, Bahrain) - Middle East
- United States Sixth Fleet (HQ Gaeta, Italy) - Europe
- United States Seventh Fleet (HQ Yokosuka, Japan) - West Pacific
Inactive
- United States First Fleet
- United States Tenth Fleet - a shore-bound anti-submarine coordinating center
- Great White Fleet - nickname for the US Atlantic Fleet sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908
- See also United States Navy reserve fleets
[edit] Other fleets
- Combined Fleet, the main combatant component of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
- Portuguese 1807 Fleet
[edit] Informal fleet names
- Spanish Armada - name used in England to describe the fleet assembled by Phillip II of Spain for the invasion of England.
