"flotilla" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of boats or ships, usually militarily organized, that travel together. For example: "The Venezuelan navy sent out a flotilla of warships to patrol the Caribbean Sea."
The only other comparable experience to politics at the highest level might be being the boss of a major corporation, but that person has a flotilla of assistants, minders, spinners, planners, schedulers, minions and an eye-popping salary.
Everyone else – from the hundreds of tourists on the opposite Riva del Vin to the swarms of paparazzi following the marital motorboat like a particularly terrifying flotilla – seemed to think it was, all in all, a fairly impressive way to get hitched.
The BBC's new docu-drama series, Armada, opened last night with visual reenactments of all the hoary tropes of Elizabethan storytelling: a beleaguered isle, led by a vacillating queen; plucky English sailors knocking together a flotilla from the few planks of driftwood and some Vaseline; wordless, faceless Spaniards, bearing down with dark crucifixes upon their captives as instruments of torture.
He delves into the history of French imperialism, from the flotilla that set sail from Toulon in 1830 to wrest Algeria from Ottoman control, to France's blood-soaked colonial retreat.
COMPARED with the flotilla of oil and gas platforms in the North Sea, the waters west of the Shetland Islands are virgin territory.
But since then a flotilla of respectable publications, from the New Yorker to Le Monde, have jumped on the bandwagon.
To make that perfectly clear, it sent a flotilla of ships, which Vietnam says included armed vessels.
CEBR predict that the Queen's diamond jubilee, to be celebrated with a flotilla down the Thames on the first weekend of June, will be a rousing success.
With little investment it can be converted into a huge marina, he says, with berths for the Mediterranean's growing flotilla of luxury yachts.
The little flotilla, bolstered by support trucks and modern rafts, made its way to Turkey's border with Syria, at which point the boats were moved overland to avoid the fighting.
A flotilla of low craft chuff from left to right, man and wife hunched at the stern.
