Eight-eight Fleet
The Eight-Eight Fleet Program (八八艦隊, Hachihachi Kantai?) was a Japanese naval strategy formulated for the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the first quarter of the 20th century, which stipulated that the navy should include eight first-class battleships and eight armoured cruisers or battlecruisers.
Read more about Eight-eight Fleet: History and Development, First "Eight-Eight", Second "Eight-Eight Fleet", Washington Naval Treaty
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“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)