Examples from literature

• At one time quite a flotilla of boats lay around us, looking very pretty with all their flags flying. 
• Here, a flotilla of canoes lay concealed where he had been hunting wild-fowl but a few hours before. 
• In this engagement, the best schooner belonging to the American flotilla was burnt, and a gondola was sunk. 
• One night we had lain with our flotilla on the Virginia coast. 
• When the races were over, the yachts were towed back to the city by a large steamer, escorted by a whole flotilla of every kind of craft loaded with sightseers.