Flotilla (New Word No. 2)

A flotilla is a fleet of small ships, as opposed to a squadron of large warships. It's of Spanish origin, but still used for some divisions of the United States Coast Guard.

Justin Taylor quoted Rev. David Short, using flotilla in his explanation of the Anglican communion.

The global communion is, at it were, 38 ships that are all chained together in the historic faith that we have received in the Scriptures, that is expressed in the creeds, in the formularies of the Anglican Church. We are a flotilla of 38 ships sailing toward, say, England. Since 2002, two of the independent provinces [US and Canada] have decided that we are going to sail in a different direction, say, Australia. So the chain that binds all these provinces together is being stretched and stretched. The ships are calling on two of the ships—Canada and the US—to turn around and head in the historic direction that the church has been heading.