The Fleet (TOS)

This article involves the caravan of sublight-speed civilian ships in the Original Series. For information on its faster-than-light capable counterpart in the Re-imagined Series, see The Fleet (RDM). For general information on the military of the Twelve Colonies in both series, see Colonial Fleet.

A shot of the "rag-tag fugitive fleet".

After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies in a devastating genocidal attack on the Colonial worlds, Commander Adama orders all survivors to find what operational ships that remain on their shattered worlds and fly them towards battlestar Galactica, the sole surviving battlestar after her sister warships are also destroyed in the two-prong Cylon attack. With nowhere else to call home, Adama decrees that the remnants of humanity will search for the Thirteenth Tribe on a planet called Earth.

Under the guardianship of Galactica, the Fleet comprises of 220 civilian ships. With the exception of Galactica, the ships are not capable of lightspeed flight. The Fleet's overall speed is limited to that of the slowest ship within the group. As all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity, removing the slower ships from the caravan is not a option.

Known Ships

Active

Name	Ship type / function	Last Seen	Notes
Agro Ship 9	Agro Ship / food supplier, civilian	War of the Gods, Part II	Last surviving agro ship after an extremely successful Cylon attack against both her and her sister ships.
Astradon	Freighter, civilian	Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II	A dejected Apollo tells an equally-dejected Starbuck that he found a little place on board the freighter that "with a little paint, and some nice curtains, it's so cozy".
Borella	Unknown, civilian	The Man with Nine Lives	Ship on the route taken by the transport shuttle Canaris. From the name, this is likely the ship from whence Bora, Maga, and Taba came, and is presumably run by Borellian Nomen (given their disdain for other Colonials).
Celestra	Electronics ship, civilian	Take the Celestra	Formerly commanded by Commander Kronus. This is the "command ship" for a small group of ships Adama assigns him to command.
Comm-Tel Ship	Inter-Fleet Broadcasting ship, civilian	The Man with Nine Lives	Conning his way out of paying for passage to Rising Star, Chameleon—claiming to be IFB's president—tells the ducket taker on the shuttle Canaris to head over to this ship so that he may be interviewed.
Edina	Civilian ship	Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II	According to Colonel Tigh, this ship almost goes astray when in the magnetic void en route to Kobol.
Galactica	Colonial battlestar, military escort	The Hand of God	Last known surviving battlestar, roughly 500 yahren old.
Gemini	Gemonese freighter, civilian	War of the Gods, Part I	Freighter with indigent and disaffected refugees; the "Borays of humanity" reside here.
Livestock Ship	Agricultural ship, civilian	The Man with Nine Lives	Commanded by Captain Dmitri, this ship is presumably a source for meat and other poultry. Chameleon posed as Dimitri in order to con some Borellian Nomen (Bora, Maga and Taba) into buying parts to build a ship of an unknown type.
Orphan Ship	Orphan care, civilian	Baltar's Escape	The purpose of the Orphan Ship appears to be oriented towards the care and processing of children orphaned during the fall of the Colonies. Chameleon claims to be a geneticist from the Orphan Ship and claims that the list for genetic testing is "yahren long" (The Man with Nine Lives). Colonel Tigh later comments to Siress Tinia that Council Security would be unable to stop an escape from the Orphan Ship (Baltar's Escape).
Pisces	Unknown, civilian	The Man with Nine Lives	One of the ships on the route taken by the transport shuttle Canaris.
Prison Barge	Prison ship, civilian	Baltar's Escape	Operated by members of Council Security.
Rising Star	Luxury liner and chancery, civilian	The Man With Nine Lives	Formerly operated by Trans Stellar Spacelines. Used to evacuate children and their caretakers off Caprica during the Cylon attack.
Sanitation Ship	Sanitation ship, civilian	The Long Patrol	Starbuck complained about being able to see a sanitation ship out the porthole of the dining chamber of the Rising Star as an excuse to book an additional chamber to keep Athena and Cassiopeia from accidentally meeting, as he engaged in a dinner-date with both at the same time.
Senior Ship	Elderly caretaker ship, civilian	The Man with Nine Lives	Siress Blassie bombarded Galactica with messages asking about the whereabouts of Chameleon from this ship. Adama later remands Chameleon to this ship as Blassie has offered to take custody of the apparent vagrant.
Tip Barge	Refuse ship, civilian	Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II	Mentioned by Apollo while engaging in mock stereotypical feminine conversation with Starbuck; Apollo claims that he procured valcron from this ship.
Trainian	Unknown, civilian	The Man with Nine Lives	One of the ships on the route taken by the transport shuttle Canaris.

Destroyed

• At least two agro ships (The Magnificent Warriors).

Unknown

• Battlestar Pegasus briefly joins the Fleet in "The Living Legend, Part I" and "Part II", but loses contact with the Fleet during the Battle of Gamoray.

Other ships

• Colonial Movers freighters
• An unnamed Flattop ship

Galactica 1980

• The freighter Delphi is shown in the "Galactica 1980" episode "The Super Scouts, Part I", and is the Fleet's schooling ship.
• Interestingly, in "Space Croppers", the Galactican Fleet is shown to have three agro ships, despite the fact that two were destroyed nearly three decades before. (This can be seen as a continuity error.)

Other

The Fleet is also comprised of shuttles and Colonial Vipers, which are likely not indicated in the "220 ship" figure given in "Saga of a Star World". It is indicated that there are non-military shuttles that ferry people and, possibly, supplies throughout the Fleet. One such craft is the shuttle Canaris (The Man with Nine Lives), in addition to the shuttle piloted by Aurora of the Celestra (Take the Celestra).

In addition to their ship compliment, the Colonials have at least one Cylon Raider in their possession, as a result of their victory at Galaxy's Edge (The Hand of God).

Fleet identification chart. Note that a Cylon mine and an Eastern Alliance warship can be seen in the far distance in a number of late TOS episodes, e.g. "Take the Celestra"...

Original Series definition: agriculture ^{(TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors")}

Original Series definition: a title of nobility, typically ascribed to a civilian of the female gender (e.g. Siress Tinia, Siress Blassie)

Galactica 1980 definition: a member of the Fleet; Hamilton first uses the term when replying to Stockwell's question regarding Xavier's affiliation ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}