Fleet

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Contents 1 Places 2 Vehicles 3 Surname 4 Other uses 5 See also

Fleet may refer to:

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 group of small 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 list of fleets

[edit] 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

[edit] Other uses

• Fleet Aircraft
• Fleet services, an English motorway service station
• 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, a Post Rock and Electronica band from Japan
• 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.

[edit] See also

• The Fleet (disambiguation)