Fleet may refer to:
Vehicles
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Fishing fleet
A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels. The term may be used of all vessels operating out of a particular port, all vessels engaged in a particular type of fishing (as in the "tuna fishing fleet"), or all fishing vessels of ...
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Naval fleet
A fleet or naval fleet is a large formation of warships – the largest formation in any navy – controlled by one leader. A fleet at sea is the direct equivalent of an army on land.
Purpose
In the modern sense, fleets are usually, but not n ...
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Fleet vehicle
Fleet vehicles are groups of motor vehicles owned or leased by a business, government agency, or other organization rather than by an individual or family. Typical examples include vehicles operated by car rental companies, taxicab companies, ...
s, a pool of motor vehicles
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Fleet Aircraft, the aircraft manufacturing company
Places
Canada
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Fleet, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
England
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The Fleet Lagoon
Chesil Beach (also known as Chesil Bank) in Dorset, England is one of three major shingle beach structures in Britain.A. P. Carr and M. W. L. Blackley, "Investigations Bearing on the Age and Development of Chesil Beach, Dorset, and the Associa ...
, at Chesil Beach, Dorset
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Fleet, Dorset, England, a village and civil parish
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Fleet, Hampshire
Fleet is a town and civil parish in the Hart District of Hampshire, England, centred 38.2 miles (61.5 km) WSW of London and 13 miles (21 km) east of Basingstoke. It is the major town of the Hart District, and has large technology business ar ...
, England, a town and civil parish
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Fleet, Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, a hamlet
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Fleet Pond, Hampshire, England
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River Fleet
The River Fleet is the largest of London's subterranean rivers, all of which today contain foul water for treatment. Its headwaters are two streams on Hampstead Heath, each of which was dammed into a series of ponds—the Hampstead Ponds an ...
, subterranean river in London, England
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Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a major street mostly in the City of London. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary with the City of Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was n ...
, named after the river
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Fleet Prison, named after the river
**Fleet Line, named after the river, was the original name for the London Underground
Jubillee Line
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Fleet, Lincolnshire, England
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Fleet (Kent), a term for a waterway in the Thames marshes, England
Scotland
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Water of Fleet, a river in Scotland
*Fleet Bay, a part of a National Scenic Area within
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway ( sco, Dumfries an Gallowa; gd, Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It covers the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, Ki ...
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United States
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Fleet, Kentucky
Fleet is an unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illino ...
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In business
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, also known as FLEET, Australian physics research collaboration developing ultra-low-energy electronics
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Fleet Aircraft, a Canadian manufacturer of aircraft from 1928 to 1957
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FleetBoston Financial
FleetBoston Financial was a Boston, Massachusetts-based bank created in 1999 by the merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston. In 2004 it merged with Bank of America; all of its banks and branches were converted to Bank of America.
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, a financial institution also known as Fleet Bank
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Fleet Farm
Fleet Farm (formerly Mills Fleet Farm) is an American retail chain of 48 stores in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. Headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, the company has a main distribution center in Chippewa Falls, ...
, American farm and ranch supply store chain
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Fleet services
Fleet Services is a motorway service station on the M3 near Fleet. It is owned by Welcome Break.
History
Opened in 1973, it was originally built in a Scandinavian style and in 1992 won Loo of the Year Award. Before 2001, when Winchester serv ...
, an English motorway service station
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Fleet (laxative)
Bisacodyl (INN) is an organic compound that is used as a stimulant laxative drug. It works directly on the colon to produce a bowel movement. It is typically prescribed for relief of episodic and chronic constipation and for the management of n ...
, brand name for Bisacodyl
People
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Fleet (surname) Fleet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Charles Browne Fleet (1843-1916), American pharmacist
* David Fleet (born 1954), Canadian politician
*Frank Fleet (1848-1900), American baseball player
* Frederick Fleet (1887-1965), Br ...
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Moses Fleetwood Walker
Moses Fleetwood Walker (October 7, 1856 – May 11, 1924) was an American professional baseball catcher who, historically, was credited with being the first black man to play in Major League Baseball (MLB). A native of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, a ...
(1856-1924), nicknamed "Fleet", American baseball player, inventor, and author, credited by some as being the first African American to play Major League Baseball
Other uses
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Ebbsfleet United F.C., an English football team whose nickname is "The Fleet"
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The Fleet series of shared universe science fiction anthologies edited by David Drake and Bill Fawcett
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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 19 ...
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Fleets, a discontinued disappearing messaging feature of the Twitter platform
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Wilmington Clippers
The Wilmington Clippers were a professional American football team that played from 1937 to 1942, and from 1946 to 1949. They were based in the American Association from 1939 to 1941, later returning for the 1946 to 1949 seasons. They were loca ...
(1937–1950), an American football team nicknamed "The Fleet"
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Fleet
Fleet may refer to:
Vehicles
*Fishing fleet
*Naval fleet
* Fleet vehicles, a pool of motor vehicles
* Fleet Aircraft, the aircraft manufacturing company
Places
Canada
* Fleet, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
England
*The Fleet Lagoon, at Chesil Beac ...
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See also
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The Fleet (disambiguation)
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First fleet (disambiguation)
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Second Fleet (disambiguation)
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Third Fleet (disambiguation)
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Fourth Fleet (disambiguation) Fourth Fleet or 4th fleet may mean:
* Fourth Fleet (Australia), an unofficial term for convict ships from England in 1792
* United States Fourth Fleet
* IJN 4th Fleet, Imperial Japanese Navy
* Luftflotte 4
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Fifth Fleet (disambiguation)
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Sixth Fleet (disambiguation)
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Seventh Fleet (disambiguation)
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8th Fleet (disambiguation)
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9th Fleet
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