flotilla

While the flotilla of ships carrying back migrants was highly publicised, Myanmar this week revealed it has also been organising weekly flights returning an additional roughly 8,000 migrants since January.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

About a month later, they pulled off their first small-group flotilla in the Spanish Virgin Islands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Sun leads with reports of a "dinghy flotilla in Channel", writing that the boats carried "up to 1,000 migrants headed for Britain".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

I instead recall coasting past a flotilla of icebergs in Alaska’s Glacier Bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Navy destroyer and two coast guard cutters had taken up positions among the usual flotilla of yachts, sailboats, launches, dinghies, and canoes assembling near the finish line.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

This battle between Team USA and Europe at Bethpage Black is also a proxy war between rival flotillas of wonks and analysts who advise both teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025

Aside from government jobs, fishing is the only viable way to make a living, and since the arrival of the Chinese flotillas even that has become difficult.

From BBC ● May 20, 2025

A joint command center with officials from all four parties will be set up immediately in Istanbul to monitor every movement of the flotillas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2022

One-third of Vietnam’s 96 million people live along the serpentine coastline, where humble flotillas of identical blue-and-red boats bob in ramshackle harbors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020

Well on into the nineteenth century fur traders were still sending in supplies from Montreal and bringing back peltry from Fort William in flotillas of great bark canoes.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar Douglas Skelton