alan watkins was one of the last of the great Fleet Street characters.
A great fleet flying the flag of St George sails across the stage.
Ribble's image is polished by a great fleet of preserved red buses cared for by the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust.
The great fleet of B-47 and B-52 intercontinental bombers already deployed also assured continued American strategic superiority through the early 1960s.
"He was a great Fleet Street colleague," says Brian Jackson, the travel writer and ecologist who shared an office with him at the Sunday Times from 1970.
Alex Montgomery, one of the great Fleet Street veterans, told a lovely story during the Football Writers Associationn dinner about a trick Dave Mackay used to play on nights out when he would ask for someone to toss a coin in his direction.
Armada, also called Spanish Armada or Invincible Armada, Spanish Armada Española or Armada Invencible, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.
The town itself does not boast a great fleet of boats, although there are a number of locally registered boats involved in the fishing; its importance now is as a landing port for herring, and this means that all the elements of selling & distributing the herring keep the port humming.
"This is the kind of tree that the British used to build the world's greatest fleet of ships back in the 17th and 18th century," Mr. Cohn said, as he climbed the tree, waxing grandiloquent about the denseness of its wood and its resistance to disease.
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: 'The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor'" (City of God, IV.4, pp. 147 8).
