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Places

"Fleet" is a geographical name:

• Fleet, a village in Dorset, England, sited on The Fleet, a lagoon
• Fleet, in the county of Hampshire, England
• a Fleet, in Kent, inlet, creek, a name for saline waterways in the Thames marshes
• the River Fleet, a subterranean river in London
  • Fleet Street, named after the river
  • Fleet Prison, named after the river
    • Fleet Marriages, named after the prison
• Fleet, in the county of Lincolnshire, England
• Gatehouse of Fleet a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, lying on the Water of Fleet
• Fleet, Highland, in the Scottish Highlands

Fleet is a hamlet and parish in south Dorset, England, situated two miles west of Weymouth. ... Statistics Population: Approx. ... A fleet is a saline waterway within the North Kent Marshes, on the Hoo Peninsula between Rochester and Gravesend and on the Isle of Sheppey. ... Entrance to the Fleet River, Samuel Scott, c. ... Fleet Street in 2005 Fleet Street is a famous street in London, England, named after the River Fleet. ... Pray remember ye poor debtors: inmates of the Fleet Prison beg passers by for alms. ... A Fleet Marriage is the best-known example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before 1753. ... Fleet is a small village residing on Delph Bank, south east of Holbeach, in Lincolnshire. ... Gatehouse of Fleet is a town in Scotland which has been in existence since the mid-1700s, although the area has been inhabited since much earlier. ...

Vehicles

A fleet is a collection of ships or vehicles, with many specific connotations:

• Fleet vehicles, two or more vehicles
• Naval fleet, a substantial group of ships
• Fishing fleet
• A small group of ships, also known as a flotilla
• Starfleet, the paramilitary defense, research, diplomacy, and exploration force in the fictional Star Trek universe

See List of fleets for a full list of fleets fleet, see Fleet. ... A rare occurance of a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. ... A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels. ... A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a flota of small ships, and this from French flotte), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet. ... Starfleet Command symbol In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet is the paramilitary defense, research, diplomacy, and exploration force of the United Federation of Planets (UFP) with – as of the late 24th century – hundreds of starships and starbases at its disposal. ... List of British fleets of World War I British Grand Fleet List of British fleets of World War II British Eastern Fleet British Home Fleet British Mediterranean Fleet British Pacific Fleet List of United States fleets US Atlantic Fleet US Pacific Fleet US Asiatic Fleet For a list of numbered...

Surname

• Charles Browne Fleet
• David Fleet
• Ed Van Fleet
• Frederick Fleet
• James Fleet
• James Van Fleet
• Jo Van Fleet
• Preston Fleet
• Stephan Szpak-Fleet
• Stephen Fleet

There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... David Gordon Fleet (born March 3, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Frederick Fleet (October 15, 1887 – January 10, 1965) was a crewman and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, after it struck an iceberg in 1912. ... James Fleet is a British actor, most famous for his role as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. ... James Alward Van Fleet (March 19, 1892 - September 23, 1992) was a U.S. Army general during World War II and the Korean War. ... Jo Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning American theater and film actress. ... Preston Mitchell Fleet (1934-1995) (nicknamed Sandy) was the founder of Fotomat. ... Stephan Szpak-Fleet was born on April 25th, 1979 in Warsaw, Poland to Alina Szpak and Robert Fleet. ...

Other uses

• Fleet Aircraft
• FleetBoston Financial and its precursor Fleet Financial Group, financial institutions
• Fleet, a brand name of glycerin laxative suppository
• Ferry Fleet, a gang
• Inmarsat Fleet, a satellite communications service
• Fleet Farm, a store
• Fleet Japanese Band
• Fleet Badminton Brand

Fleet used as a verb is also a colloquial expression used by fisherman to describe a vessel’s first movement when she drags her keel along the ground as the rising flood tide is just beginning to float her off. Fleet Aircraft was a manufacturer of aircraft. ... FleetBoston Financial was a Boston, Massachusetts-based bank created in 1999 by the merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston. ... A laxative is a preparation used for encouraging defecation, or the expulsion of feces. ... Mills Fleet Farm logo Mills Fleet Farm is a retail chain of 30 large stores in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. ...

See also

• The Fleet (disambiguation)

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