Imperial fleet may refer to the fleet (usually the navy) of an empire. Examples include:
- Reichsflotte, the German imperial navy from 1848-1852
- Kaiserliche Marine, the German imperial navy from 1871-1919
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Roman navy, navy of the Roman Empire
Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or fleet:
“This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain.... It is a war ... to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)