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Fleet may refer to:
Vehicles [link]
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.
Places [link]
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
People [link]
- 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
Other uses [link]
- 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
See also [link]
- 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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Fleet (horse)
Fleet (1964 – after 1979), known in the United States as Fleet II, was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic 1000 Guineas in 1967. In a racing career lasting from June 1966 until July 1967, the filly contested nine races (including one occasion on which she refused to start) and won five times. As a two-year-old in 1966, Fleet won two of her three races including the Cheveley Park Stakes and was the highest rated filly of her age in Britain. In the following year she won three races over a distance of one mile including the 1000 Guineas and the Coronation Stakes. When tried over longer distances she finished fourth in the Epsom Oaks and Eclipse Stakes. She was retired to stud where she had some success as a broodmare in Britain and the United States.
Background
Fleet was a bay mare bred in County Limerick, Ireland by Peter FitzGerald. Her sire, Immortality, a British-bred half brother to the Whitney Stakes winner Cohoes, was sent to stud without ever having competed in a race. Shortly after siring Fleet he was sold and exported to Argentina. Fleet's dam, Review, was an outstanding broodmare: her other progeny included Pourparler (1000 Guineas), Democratie (Prix de la Forêt) and Display (Cheveley Park Stakes, Coronation Stakes). Review was a difficult and temperamental mare, who was often sent to be covered by Immortality as he was based near FitzGerald's stud.
Fleet (surname)
Fleet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
