That Fleet ship could have been the last for a long time.

"How long before the rest of the 1st Fleet ships can join the squadron?"

But with all the cutbacks in the fleet ships, not impossible.

The development of flat top vessels produced the first large fleet ships.

Meanwhile, the last ten surviving Fleet ships gather for the most critical operation of the war.

I'd opt for us to come from a Fleet ship, a cruiser.

She provided fuel to fleet ships at that port through 3 March 1946, when the vessel got underway for home.

And a Fleet ship with a single scouting pilot would need the "company," spurious as it was.

But she knew it would be futile; she wasn't a battle group of Fleet ships, all in herself.

He leaped to the controls and the fleet little ship screamed skyward.