White Fleet or White fleet may refer to:
- White fleet (UK military vehicles), non-combat vehicles used by the UK military.
- The Great White Fleet, the dispatch of US naval forces to the orient between 1907 and 1909.
- In the New Zealand Fire Service, the white fleet refers to the cars used by career (that is, full-time) executive officers, and support vehicles such as vans and utility vehicles. This comes from their white paint jobs, as contrasted with the red fleet of fire engines that carry out emergency response duties.
- In Newfoundland the White Fleet is a reference to the fleet of Portuguese fishing vessels that fished for cod on Newfoundland's Grand Banks. The vessels were white.
Famous quotes containing the words white and/or fleet:
“Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easily born; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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