Fleet
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Fleet may refer to:
[edit] Vehicles
A fleet is a collection of ships or vehicles, with many specific connotations:
- Fleet vehicles, two or more vehicles
- Fishing fleet
- Naval fleet, substantial group of warships
- A group of small ships or flotilla
- A group of racing sailboats. A superset whose subsets are called "classes". Classes may be non-identical boat types grouped into handicap rating bands or ranges, or classes may be groups of ("one-design") boat types, identical within their respective class. A class may be further subdivided into "divisions" and/or "flights".
- Starfleet, fictional military, diplomatic, and exploration force in Star Trek
- Ugs fleet, a collection of military ground sensors.
[edit] Places
A fleet is a saline waterway found in river marshes:
- Fleet, Kent, a waterway in the Thames marshes, England
Fleet is found in place names:
- Fleet, Dorset, England
- Fleet, Hampshire, England
- River Fleet, subterranean river in London, England
- Fleet Street, named after the river
- Fleet Prison, named after the river
- Fleet Marriages, named after the prison
- Fleet, Lincolnshire, England
- Gatehouse of Fleet, small town in Scotland
- Water of Fleet, a river in Scotland
- Fleet, Alberta, Canada
[edit] People
- Beth Van Fleet (born 1977), American volleyball player
- Charles Browne Fleet (1843-1916), American pharmacist
- David Fleet (born 1954), Canadian politician
- Frank Fleet (1848-1900), American baseball player
- Frederick Fleet (1887-1965), British sailor and Titanic survivor
- Greg Fleet (born 1960), Australian comedian
- James Fleet (born 1954), British actor
- James Van Fleet (1892-1992), American general
- Jo Van Fleet (1914-1996), American actress
- Pat Fleet (born 1943), American voice actress
- Preston Fleet (1934-1995), American businessman
- Reuben Fleet (1887-1975), American aviation pioneer
- Stephan Szpak-Fleet (born 1979), Polish-born American actor
- Stephen Fleet (1936-2006), British administrator
- William Van Fleet (1852-1923), American judge
[edit] Other uses
- Fleet Aircraft
- FleetBoston Financial, financial institution
- Fleet Farm, American farm and ranch supply store chain
- Fleet Foxes, American band
- Fleet (laxative), brand name for bisacody
- Fleet services, English motorway service station
- Fleet Spurs F.C.
- Ebbsfleet United F.C., whose nickname is The Fleet
[edit] See also
- All pages beginning with "Fleet"
- All pages with titles containing "Fleet"
- The Fleet (disambiguation)
- First fleet (disambiguation)
- Second Fleet (disambiguation)
- Third Fleet (disambiguation)
- Fourth Fleet (disambiguation)
- Fifth Fleet (disambiguation)
- Sixth Fleet (disambiguation)
- Seventh Fleet (disambiguation)
- 8th Fleet (disambiguation)
- 9th Fleet
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