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...

name, chosen by Edsel Ford, that of the fleet-footed messenger of the gods of Roman mythology. The Mercury Eight was strongly identified as an upmarket...

Number Eight is a female humanoid Cylon model on the television series Battlestar Galactica, a reimagining of the 1978 show of the same name. She is portrayed...

Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8), is a United States Navy aircraft carrier air wing based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. The air wing is attached...

battlecruisers planned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as part of the Eight-eight fleet in the early 1920s. The ships were to be named Amagi, Akagi, Atago...

Numbers 13–16. They were intended to reinforce Japan's "eight-eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced a...

When Eight Bells Toll is a first-person narrative novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and published in 1966. It marked MacLean's return...

received names. They were intended to reinforce Japan's "eight-eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced a...

Tosa-gata Senkan) were two dreadnoughts ordered as part of the "Eight-Eight" fleet for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the early 1920s. The ships...

in the Japanese navy were still dissatisfied, calling for an 'eight-eight-eight' fleet with 24 modern battleships and battlecruisers. The British, impoverished...

construction of a battle fleet of eight modern battleships and eight battlecruisers. This was the genesis of the Eight-Eight Fleet Program, the development...

Qantas operates a fleet of Airbus A330, Airbus A380, Boeing 737 and Boeing 787 making a total of 125 aircraft. This list excludes subsidiaries Jetstar...

under the Eight-eight fleet plan. They have two sub-classes, this article handles them collectively. In 1920, the IJN developed an Eight-eight Fleet Plan which...

British counterparts, the Eight-Eight Fleet Program was restarted. The first battleships built for the renewed Eight-Eight Fleet Program were the two dreadnoughts...

latter's fleet posed such a significant threat to its own. The primary component of the Fleet was its battleships, typically organized in eight-ship squadrons...

re-entered operation, this time as the sole cruise ship in Swan Hellenic's fleet. The vessel was named Minerva II, after both the Roman goddess and the company's...

was initially planned in 1920 as one of six of the oilers under the Eight-eight fleet final plan. Kamoi was completed 12 September 1922, and classified...

Airlines fleet, comprising 150 passenger aircraft and 12 freighters. On May 16, 2023, Singapore Airlines confirmed that it had cancelled orders for eight Boeing...

wholly owned by Villegas Group of Buses. It was formed in 2012. The fleet Diamond V–Eight is composed of 10 units. All of them are UD Trucks Condor PKB212...

1907, the official policy of the Navy became an 'eight-eight fleet' of eight modern battleships and eight battlecruisers. However, financial constraints...

need a fleet at least 70 percent as strong as the United States' in order to emerge victorious. To that end, the concept of the Eight-Eight fleet was developed...

battle. These planes were the first Navy aircraft to attack the Japanese fleet that day. They attacked without fighter cover, and five of the Avengers...

between 1922 and 1924 under the Eight-eight fleet plan. The IJN planned to build over 100 submarines under the Eight-eight fleet plan, and it was recognized...

Group Eight Holds Change of Command Ceremony". DVIDS. Retrieved 6 June 2023. "Chief of Staff, Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 8". Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet. 6...

for the expansion of Japan's fleet to include eight battleships and eight battlecruisers. Immediately, issues with the fleet expansion plan surfaced because...

States, Poland, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia), were nicknamed the Yellow Fleet after the desert sand that coated them. During the war, Egypt blocked both...

The United States Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) is a service component command of the United States Navy that provides naval forces to a wide variety of...

mackerel fleets at Prouts Neck, one at dawn and the other at sunset; on the third he painted a grisaille study of the work that inspired Eight Bells, which...

first eight months of the Pacific War. At the time of its best-known operation, the attack on Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, the 1st Air Fleet was the...

General Electric CF6 engines that powered the earlier A330 fleet. The original fleet of eight A330s were transferred to PAL Express until these were retired...