This article is about the U.S. Navy Battle Fleet. For the game series, see BattleFleet (game series). For the 1978 war movie, see The Greatest Battle.
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The United States Battle Fleet or Battle Force was part of the organization of the United States Navy from 1922 to 1941.
The General Order of 6 December 1922 organized the United States Fleet, with the Battle Fleet as the Pacific presence. This fleet comprised the main body of ships in the Navy, with the smaller Scouting Fleet as the Atlantic presence. Most battleships, including the most modern ones, and new aircraft carriers were assigned to the Battle Fleet.
The United States BattleFleet or Battle Force was part of the organization of the United States Navy from 1922 to 1941. The General Order of 6 December...
back into a separate Asiatic Fleet. The General Order 94 of 6 December 1922 organized the United States Fleet, with the Battle Force as the Pacific presence...
The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of the Skagerrak) was a naval battle between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral...
Star FleetBattles (SFB) is a tactical board wargame set in an offshoot of the Star Trek setting called the Star Fleet Universe. Originally created in...
voyage also provided an opportunity to improve the sea- and battle-worthiness of the fleet. While earlier capital-ship classes such as the Kearsarge, Illinois...
necessary for maintaining station with the battlefleet, but enabled the carrier to catch up with the battlefleet after temporarily leaving formation to...
Athenian-dominated allied navy engaged the Persian fleet in the nearby straits of Artemisium. In the resulting Battle of Thermopylae, the rearguard of the Greek...
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French...
the most important naval event since Trafalgar". The battle involved the Japanese Combined Fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Russian Second...
The High Seas Fleet (German: Hochseeflotte) was the battlefleet of the German Imperial Navy and saw action during the First World War. The formation was...
commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, and Koga wanted the Imperial Japanese Navy to engage the American fleet in the "single decisive battle" in early 1944. On 31...
French fleet. He proposed avoiding a sea battle, except under very favourable conditions, until he could be reinforced. By thus keeping his "fleet in being"...
that year. This law doubled the size of the fleet from 19 to 38 battleships; two flagships, four battle squadrons of eight battleships each, and four...
The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized: Baltiyskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under...
States Fleet. Defined as "the principal naval force of the United States," the new fleet was composed of four elements: (a) the BattleFleet, (b) the...
A fleet submarine is a submarine with the speed, range, and endurance to operate as part of a navy's battlefleet. Examples of fleet submarines are the...
Fleet around 2014. The first twenty-one Fleet Problems — labeled with roman numerals as Fleet Problem I through Fleet Problem XXI — were conducted between...
forces at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, in October 1944. The Seventh Fleet fought in two of the Battle of Leyte Gulf's...
in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the battle was the first naval action in which the opposing fleets neither sighted nor fired upon one another,...
carrier HMS Illustrious in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack struck the battlefleet of the Regia Marina at anchor in the harbour of Taranto, using aerial...
The Battle Cruiser Fleet, (BCF), later known as Battle Cruiser Force, a naval formation of fast battlecruisers of the Royal Navy, operated from 1915 to...
The 1st Air Fleet (第一航空艦隊, Daiichi Kōkū Kantai), also known as the Kidō Butai ("Mobile Force"), was a name used for a combined carrier battle group comprising...
Seventh Fleets. The battle consisted of four main separate engagements (the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, the Battle of Surigao Strait, the Battle off Cape...
long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats...
Russian Navy, it was referred to as the Battle of 10 August. The battle foiled an attempt by the Russian fleet at Port Arthur to break out and form up...
BattleFleet in the Pacific (Commander, Battleships, Pacific). When formed in 1922, the BattleFleet (renamed Battle Force in 1930 and Pacific Fleet in...
large naval battles in history were fleet actions. A fleet action is unrelated to participation of any formation that is a named naval fleet, and usually...
over the German fleet. After the USA joined the war, the US Battleship Division Nine was attached to the Grand Fleet as the Sixth Battle Squadron, adding...
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