0 a large group of boats or small ships --
1 a large group of boats or small ships, esp. military ships --
Active submarine training is being carried out by these flotillas and each has very modern and fine submarines.
He was asked by a foreign naval attache to tell him the strength and numbers of the destroyer flotillas.
I said that there would be an average of one flotilla a year over the whole period.
Are those flotillas still at flotilla strength, or have any of them been brought home?
I am told that this flotilla is designed specifically for that purpose.
What is his estimate of the likely annual cost to the national health service of the flotilla of pen pushers that he proposes to create?
The charts are the end product of a well-organised chain of events which begins at sea with the work of the surveying flotilla.
My opinion is that your commerce protecting flotilla will really become death traps for gallant lives.
