Crossword clues for flotilla
flotilla
- Naval unit
- A United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships
- A fleet of small craft
- Small fleet
- Group of small boats
- Group of boats or small warships
- Case for money secured by First Lord of Admiralty primarily for small 12
- Squadron of small warships
- Ships — a good many brought in to replenish Armada, ultimately
- Fleet of vessels
- Fleet of small ships
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flotilla \Flo*til"la\, n. [Sp. flotilla, dim. of flota fleet; akin to F. flotte, It. flotta, and F. flot wave, fr. L. fluctus, but prob. influenced by words akin to E. float. See Fluctuate, and cf. Float, n.] A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a small fleet," 1711, from Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota "a fleet," from flotar "to float," which is said to be from Old French floter "to float, set afloat," which is from a word in Frankish or some other Germanic language corresponding to Old English flood (n.). Compare Old Norse floti "raft; fleet." Sometimes also "a fleet of small ships."
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
WordNet
n. a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships
a fleet of small craft
Wikipedia
A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota ( fleet) of ships, and this from French flotte), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet. A flotilla is usually composed of a homogeneous group of the same class of warship, such as frigates, destroyers, torpedo boats, submarines, gunboats, or minesweepers. Groups of larger warships are usually called squadrons, but similar units of non-capital ships may be called squadrons in some places and times, and flotillas in others.
A flotilla is usually commanded by a Rear Admiral, a Commodore or a Captain, depending on the importance of the command (a Vice Admiral would normally command a squadron). A flotilla is often divided into two or more divisions, each of which might be commanded by the most senior Commander. A flotilla is often, but not necessarily, a permanent formation.
In modern navies, flotillas have tended to become administrative units containing several squadrons. As warships have grown larger, the term squadron has gradually replaced the term flotilla for formations of destroyers, frigates and submarines in many navies.
A naval flotilla has no direct equivalent on land, but is, perhaps, the rough equivalent in value of a brigade or regiment.
Flotilla is a 2010 turn-based strategy space combat video game developed by Brendon Chung's studio, Blendo Games. The game was released in March 2010 on Steam for Microsoft Windows and on Xbox Live Indie Games for the Xbox 360. Flotilla was designed with Microsoft's XNA tools, and its development was influenced by animals as well as board games such as Axis and Allies and Arkham Horror. The game takes the player in an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy.
Chung began developing Flotilla immediately after the closure of Pandemic Studios, where he had worked as a designer. The new game used assets imported from Chung's early space combat prototype, Space Piñata. Flotilla incorporates several pieces of classical music in its score, such as Chopin's "Raindrop" prelude. It received mixed reviews from video game media outlets, scoring 72 out of 100 on review aggregate website Metacritic, and was included in Mike Rose's book 250 Indie Games You Must Play.
Usage examples of "flotilla".
In a flotilla of dhows, Osman Atalan and his entourage sailed up the Bahr El Azrek, the Blue Nile, as far as the small river town of Aligail.
He had imagined Beaumont was testing him in his new role as second in command of the Scrapyard Flotilla.
All he could understand was that Beaumont had decided to stay out of the fight with the bulk of the flotilla.
The British already had their agents in the bases who, amongst other things, could observe the sporting activities of the flotillas, and from that the enemy could deduce which boats were still at base and which at the front.
To prevent these boats even reaching the invasion area, the British transferred four extra Support Groups to Plymouth at the western exit from the Channel, where they joined up with six other flotillas.
We had no heavy surface units in that sea area, merely some destroyers, torpedo boats and other small craft, and former fishing vessels used as patrol and mine-sweeping flotillas.
Rear Admiral Fritz Bonte, commanding the German destroyer flotilla, answered by sending an officer in a launch to the Norwegian vessel to demand surrender.
Combined Fleet in Cadiz, is all that prevents Bonaparte from sailing his flotillas, Nelson said quietly.
They waded out into the warm shallow water, beyond the shrieks of the bobbers and dunkers, avoided the little paddle-bicycles, the flotilla of water wings, and still were only waist deep.
Generals commanding military districts, and commandants of military posts and detachments, and officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats, will give safe conduct to persons and products, merchandise, and other articles duly authorized as aforesaid, and not contraband of war, or prohibited by order of the War Department, or of the order of such generals commanding, or other duly authorized military or naval officer, made in pursuance hereof, and all persons hindering or preventing such safe conduct of persons or property will, be deemed guilty of a military offense and punished accordingly.
Gaby was now riding with Hautbois and Robin, while Valiha and Psaltery led the flotilla in canoes that rode high in front.
She, with two of the largest boats, were to bombard the fort, the rest of the flotilla were to board the junks, with the exception of the boats under Mr.
Oonalaska, westward of the Aleutian chain of islands and Kadiak, just south of the great Alaskan peninsula, were the two main points whence radiated the hunting flotillas for the sea-otter grounds.
A continuous cordon of jovial but overworked policemen, including some from Italy, France and Germany since the numbers of the tiny Swiss force were simply not up to the task, maintained a clear zone two hundred meters wide between the rapidly growing crowd and the perimeter fence, while on the lakeward side a flotilla of police launches scurried to and fro to keep at bay an armada of boats, yachts and craft of every description.
He was being delivered back to Drummond and to his home in County Cork by the most convenient route - as part of a minesweeping flotilla.