The naval flotilla moved into Steele's Bayou on March 14, 1863.

This event marked the first time in history that a United States Marine Corps officer took command of a naval flotilla.

All the senior Union officers expressed doubts that there would be any serious Confederate opposition, except for the naval flotilla.

The first of these efforts, a small naval flotilla, was thwarted by the Sri Lankan Navy.

The naval flotilla's commanding admiral called their bluff.

A naval flotilla has no direct equivalent on land, but is, perhaps, the rough equivalent in value of a brigade or regiment.

By the autumn of 1944, these ships officially formed a Danish naval flotilla in exile.

At the same time a German naval flotilla 1st Zerstörerflottille was sent into to the area to disrupt Allied shipping.

However the small country has a naval flotilla of submarines under Captain John Sirius.

Soon a naval flotilla was sent to Charleston harbor, and the threat of landing ground troops was used to compel the collection of tariffs.