List of fleets

Contents 1 Canadian fleets 2 Chinese fleets 3 Dutch fleets 4 French fleets 5 German fleets 6 Indian fleets 7 Japanese fleets 8 Russian or Soviet fleets 8.1 Active fleets 8.2 Inactive fleets, Soviet and Russian 9 United Kingdom fleets & squadrons 9.1 Pre World War I 9.2 World War I 9.3 World War II 9.4 Post World War II 10 United States fleets 10.1 Naval commands 10.2 Modern US Navy fleets 10.3 Inactive 11 Other fleets 12 Informal fleet names

List of fleets.

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Canadian fleets

• Canadian Fleet Atlantic (HQ Halifax, Nova Scotia)
• Canadian Fleet Pacific (HQ Esquimalt, British Columbia)

Chinese fleets

• Beiyang Fleet - historic
• Nanyang Fleet - historic
• East Sea Fleet
• North Sea Fleet
• South Sea Fleet

Dutch fleets

• State Fleet

French fleets

• French Atlantic Fleet (HQ Brest)
• French Mediterranean Fleet (HQ Toulon)
• French American Squadron (HQ Martinique)
• French Indian Ocean Squadron (HQ Réunion)
• French Pacific Fleet (HQ Papeete)
• French Channel Squadron (HQ Brest)

German fleets

• High Seas Fleet - historic

Indian fleets

• Eastern Fleet
• Western Fleet
• Southern Fleet
• Far Eastern Fleet

Japanese fleets

• Combined Fleet, the main combatant component of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

Russian or Soviet fleets

Active fleets

• Baltic Fleet
• Black Sea Fleet
• Caspian Flotilla
• Russian Northern Fleet
• Pacific Ocean Fleet (Russia)

Inactive fleets, Soviet and Russian

• Amur Military Flotilla
• Arctic Sea Flotilla
• Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet

United Kingdom fleets & squadrons

Pre World War I

• Channel Fleet
• West Africa Squadron (HQ Freetown, Sierra Leone).- Atlantic Ocean
• Atlantic Fleet- Atlantic Ocean, English Channel
• Pacific Squadron. ( Valparaíso Chile.)-South East Pacific
• East Indies and China Squadron.
• Cape of Good Hope Squadron.- South Atlantic

World War I

• British Grand Fleet (HQ Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland).- North Sea
• Harwich Flotilla
• British Mediterranean Fleet (HQ Malta).-Mediterranean Sea
• North America and West Indies Squadron (HQ Halifax, Canada then Bermuda).- North Atlantic
• East Indies Squadron.-Indian Ocean
• China Squadron (HQ Singapore).- South China Sea, Western Pacific
• Australian Squadron (HQ Sydney). South West Pacific

World War II

• British Home Fleet(HQ Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland)- North Sea
• British Mediterranean Fleet (HQ Alexandria, Egypt.)-Mediterranean Sea
• British Eastern Fleet (HQ Trincomalee, Ceylon.)- Indian Ocean
• British Pacific Fleet (HQ Sydney, Australia).- South West Pacific
• New Zealand Squadron.
• South Atlantic Squadron.

Post World War II

• Western Fleet (HQ Northwood, England).-Mediterranean Sea

United States fleets

Naval commands

• United States Fleet Forces Command (formerly Atlantic Fleet)
• United States Naval Forces Central Command
• United States Naval Forces Europe
• United States Pacific Fleet
• US Asiatic Fleet - historic

Modern US Navy fleets

They are numbered odd in the Pacific or West, and even in the Atlantic or East:

• 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
• United States Tenth Fleet (HQ Fort Meade, Maryland) - Reactivated as Fleet Cyber Command. Formerly anti submarine warfare coordinating organization.

Inactive

• United States First Fleet
• United States Second Fleet
• Great White Fleet - nickname for the US Atlantic Fleet sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908

Other fleets

• Portuguese 1807 Fleet

Informal fleet names

• Spanish Armada - name used in England to describe the fleet assembled by Philip II of Spain for the invasion of England.