Principal Reserve Fleets
- The British Reserve Fleet was a repository for British decommissioned warships from circa 1800 until circa 1970.
- The United States National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF), consists of about fifty World War II ships that have been moored in Suisun Bay near San Francisco since the 1950s or '60s. The fleet includes military troopships and tankers.
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