Grand Fleet

The Grand Fleet was the main fleet of the British Royal Navy during the First World War.

Read more about Grand Fleet:  History, Order of Battle

Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or fleet:

    “One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)