Fleets of microbial capsules can be aimed at clusters of new stars in star-forming clouds, where they may land on planets or captured by asteroids and comets and later delivered to planets.

Fleets consisting of perhaps 10 to 25 of these ships, with their attendant supply ships and scouting and messenger frigates, kept control of the sea lanes for major European naval powers whilst restricting the sea-borne trade of enemies.

The 5th Operational Squadron in the Mediterranean drew its units from the Black Sea, Baltic, and Northern Fleets ; the Indian Ocean Squadron primarily from the Pacific Fleet.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

After the devastating carrier losses at Midway and in the Solomon Islands campaign, the Navy re-organized into a number of " Area Fleets " for local operational control of various geographic zones.

As the war situation deteriorated for the Japanese and the territories controlled by the " Area Fleets " fell one after another to the United States Navy, the Imperial General Headquarters and the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff acted to force the American fleet into a " decisive battle " in the Philippines per the kantai kessen philosophy.

Fleets and armies are raised, and the aid of foreign troops engaged to assist these destructive purposes: The king ’ s representatives in the colony hath not only withheld all the powers of government from operating for our safety, but, having retired on board an armed ship, is carrying on a piratical and savage war against us tempting our slaves by every artifice to resort to him, and training and employing them against their masters.

Further, Weber's choice of interstellar technology forces trade to pursue established trade routes, and creates strategic shipping nexus that are similar to key strategic ports of the days of the Colonial Era when the sailing ship of the line was king of the sea, and Captains, Admirals and Fleets had to operate out of touch with the home government for months, even years at a time.

* Sustainable Green Fleets, an EU-sponsored dissemination project for alternatively fuels for fleets

During the Vietnam War the annual Tailhook reunion and symposium also served to provide opportunities for aircrews from the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets to exchange information about events in Southeast Asia.

Wood was retired for age later in 1871 but continued to serve the Navy in a civilian capacity as Medical Inspector-General Hospitals and Fleets until his final retirement in 1873.

*( 3 ) Minoans ( Crete ) Fleets: E Med.

The arrival of the Second and Third Fleets placed new pressures on the scarce local resources, but by the time Phillip sailed home in December 1792, the colony was taking shape, with official land-grants and systematic farming and water-supply.

These carrier groups eventually formed the Fast Carrier Task Force, which became the primary battle force of the U. S. Fifth and Third Fleets.

Fleets sail wherever there is hope of profit.

* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.

Governor Pedrarias began building intercontinental and trans-isthmian portage routes, such as the " Camino Real " and " Camino de Cruces ", linking Panama City and the Pacific with Nombre de Dios ( and later with “ Portobelo ”) and the Atlantic, making possible the establishment of a trans-atlantic system of Treasure Fleets and trade.

The People's Navy was operationally incorporated into the United Baltic Sea Fleets of the Warsaw Pact states.

There was news of another massive Saracen sea attack in 1015-16 from Balearics, led by Mujahid ( Latinized in Museto ), the saracen's attempt of invasion of the island was stopped by Sardinian Giudicati with the support of the Fleets of Maritime Republics of Pisa and Genoa.

" The Rouse " is then sounded by the trumpeters of the Royal Air Force, after which wreaths are laid by the Queen and senior members of the Royal Family attending in military uniform and then, to " Beethoven's Funeral March " ( composed by Johann Heinrich Walch ), by attendees in the following order: the Prime Minister ; the leaders of the major political parties from all parts of the United Kingdom ; Commonwealth High Commissioners to London, on behalf of their respective nations ; the Foreign Secretary, on behalf of the British Dependencies ; the First Sea Lord ; the Chief of the General Staff ; the Chief of the Air Staff ; representatives of the merchant navy and Fishing Fleets and the merchant air service.

There are many other Tyranid hive fleets that have been destroyed or are still emerging, such as Hive Fleets Jormungand, Colossus, Tiamet, Scarabus, Ouroboris, Nemesis, Reatherus and Splinter Fleet Hydra among many others.

Tyranids were first mentioned under the heading Tyranids and the Hive Fleets in Warhammer 40, 000: Rogue Trader, and were illustrated in a form not too different from that of Gaunts.

On that day General Order 143 split the United States Fleet into separate Atlantic, Pacific, and Asiatic Fleets.

As of 2011, the Pacific Fleet consists of the numbered Third and Seventh Fleets, as well as Naval Air Force, Pacific ; Commander, Naval Surface Forces Pacific ; Naval Submarine Force, Pacific ; and other commands.

Fleets of ambulances are lined up to transport the injured to nearby hospitals, but they stand empty.

Fleets of helicopters sprayed malathion at night, and the California National Guard set up highway checkpoints and collected many tons of local fruit ; in the final stage of the campaign, entomologists released millions of sterile male medflies in an attempt to disrupt the insects ' reproductive cycle.

Among others, Armada introduced four new Imperial fleet rosters ( Battle Fleet Armageddon, Bastion Fleets, Battle Fleet Cadia and the Reserve fleets of Segmentum Obscurus ), as well as gathering the fleets previously mentioned into an official rulebook with updated fleet lists.

In battles in Pearl Harbor, East Indies, Australia and Ceylon, they had defeated the British, Dutch, and Asiatic Fleets, and had not lost a fleet ship larger than mine sweepers and submarines.

Furthermore, it is revealed that the leaders of the original colonists who founded Mejere and Taraak --- led by Hibiki's parents, Grandpa and Grandma --- were unwilling to lose any future natural-born children to the Harvester Fleets, and so decided upon what they considered to be a most painful but utterly necessary sacrifice: separating the original male and female colonists on two separate planets to create artificially-created twin-races of genetically-engineered sons and daughters through the mixed-cloning of the First Generation ( the majority of whom still remain secretly secured in cryo-stasis and guarded by the man who raised Hibiki ), who would serve as the substitutes to be harvested by Earth, instead of what would have otherwise been the natural-born children of the original colonists.

: In those days, if Fleets did presume on the Main,

* Soltic H404S " Mackerel ": The only amphibious Combat Armor shown in the series, and is used in conjunction with the Federation's Naval Fleets and during a massive D-Day type of landing against rebel forces.

They then emigrated en masse to the Brantisvogon star cluster ( although the film has them staying on Vogsphere ), where they form most of the Galactic bureaucracy, most notably in the Vogon Constructor Fleets ( which, despite their name, patrol the galaxy demolishing planets ).

The Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) mobilized nearly all of its remaining major naval vessels in an attempt to defeat the Allied invasion, but was repulsed by the US Navy's 3rd and 7th Fleets.

On the following day, by of December 18, 1941, the position of Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet was re-established, and he was given operational command over the Atlantic, Pacific, and Asiatic Fleets, and all naval coastal forces.

Fleets with large galleys were put in action in conflicts such as the Punic Wars ( 246-146 ) between the Roman republic and Carthage, which included massive naval battles with hundreds of vessels and tens of thousands of soldiers, seamen and rowers.

That British Fleets and Armies have been and still are daily employed in destroying the People and committing the most horrid devastations on the Country.

* May 2 – The British East Indies Fleets 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron – consisting of the aircraft carriers HMS Emperor, HMS Hunter, HMS Khedive, and HMS Stalker – begin support of Operation Dracula, a British assault on Rangoon, Burma.

The Baltic Fleet was increased to two Fleets, the 4th Red-Banner Baltic Fleet and the 8th Red-Banner Baltic Fleet on 15 February 1946.

Fleets thereby became less dependent on rowers with a lifetime of experience at the oar.

He also served on the,, and, while also serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets.

Fleets are usually, but not necessarily, permanent formations and are generally assigned to a particular ocean or sea.