Creative Prompt #224: Fleet

7th Fleet

The Fleet may refer to:

• A nickname for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, or for any country’s naval fleet.

Definition: “to cause (time) to pass usually quickly or imperceptibly.”

The Lost Fleet series of books by Jack Campbell

Fleet Week

Blue & Gold Fleet

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Red & White Fleet

Band: Fleet Foxes

Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, California

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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
  • List of naval fleets
• 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.

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

• Fleet (surname)
• 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
• Fleet (boardgame), a strategy card game published by Eagle Games