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Philip II of Spain, a naval religious power creating strong naval fleets and armadas in the early game; Qin Shi Huang of China, a cultural power with a focus on construction of early era wonders; Saladin of Arabia, juggling both faith and science for a unique way to victory; Teddy Roosevelt of America, creating massive empires focusing on ...
The Sixth Fleet was established in February 1950 by redesignation of the former Sixth Task Fleet, which in turn was the 1948 redesignation of U S Naval Forces, Mediterranean. [3] Since that time, it has been continually engaged in world affairs around the Mediterranean, and, on occasion, further afield.
US Navy fleets are numbered odd in the Pacific or West, and even in the Atlantic or East: United States Second Fleet (HQ Norfolk, Virginia) – North Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, & Homeland Defense. United States Third Fleet (HQ San Diego, California) – East Pacific; United States Fourth Fleet (HQ Mayport, Florida) – South Atlantic
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
Since many smaller navies contain a single fleet, the term the fleet is often synonymous with the navy. Multinational fleets are not uncommon in naval history. For example, several nations made up the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, and a Franco-Spanish fleet faced the British Royal Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Among the former are the present-day Caspian Flotilla, the early-20th-century Satakundskaya Flotilla, or the Aral Flotilla of the 1850s; [4] among the latter, the Don Military Flotilla (which was created several times over more than 200 years), the Dnieper Flotilla (also extant in the 18th and 20th centuries), the Red Volga Flotilla, which ...
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USS Adams (1799), scuttled 3 September 1814 to prevent capture USS Albany (1846), lost after 28–29 September 1854 with approx. 197 aboard USS Alligator (1813), captured 14 December 1814