List of fleets

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

• Chinese treasure fleet - historic
• 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

World War II

• Combined Fleet, the main combatant component of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
  • 1st Fleet (HQ Hashira-jima, Yamaguchi)
  • 2nd Fleet
  • 3rd Fleet (HQ Babeldaob, Palau)
  • 4th Fleet (HQ Truk, Micronesia)
  • 5th Fleet
  • 6th Fleet (HQ Kwajalein, Marshall Islands)
  • Southern Expeditionary Fleet
• China Area Fleet, tasked with guarding the Chinese coastal area, had the same organizational level as the Combined Fleet

Modern Day

• Self Defense Fleet, the main combatant component of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

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

Modern Day

• Surface Fleet- HQ at Portsmouth, England

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

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 Naples, 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 and historic

• United States First Fleet
• United States Second Fleet
• United States Eighth Fleet
• United States Twelfth Fleet
• United States Asiatic Fleet - historic
• 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

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.