List of fleets

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The following is the list of fleets of the navies from around the world.

Canadian fleets

• Canadian Maritime Forces Atlantic (The Royal Canadian Navy's Atlantic Fleet) (HQ Halifax, Nova Scotia)
• Canadian Maritime Forces Pacific (The Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific Fleet) (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

Spanish fleets

Spanish Empire

• Spanish treasure fleet (HQ Seville)
• Manila galleon (HQ Manila)
• New Spain fleet (HQ Havana)

Modern Day

• La Flota (The Fleet), the main combatant component of the Spanish Navy (HQ Rota)
• Canary Islands squadron (HQ Las Palmas)
• Submarine flotilla (HQ Cartagena)

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

US Navy fleets are numbered odd in the Pacific or West, and even in the Atlantic or East:

• United States Fleet Forces (HQ Norfolk, Virginia) - Homeland Defense and North Atlantic Ocean. Formerly United States Second Fleet.
• 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 Ninth Fleet
• United States Twelfth Fleet
• United States Asiatic Fleet – historic
• Great White Fleet – nickname for the United States Atlantic Fleet sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908
• Green Fleet - nickname for the United States ships or current carrier strike group sent around the world to promote a new bio-energy sustainable fuel.

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.