Atlantic Fleet

Atlantic Fleet may refer to:

  • Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom)
  • Canadian Navy Atlantic naval units - see Maritime Forces Atlantic
  • United States Fleet Forces Command (formerly the U.S. Atlantic Fleet)

Famous quotes containing the words atlantic and/or fleet:

    “The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)