Sailing and Fighting Instructions may refer to set of guidelines for fleets of war, or fleet signals for communication:
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1691) Sets of instructions issued by Edward Russell for the English confederate fleet.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1697) Sets of instructions issued by Paul Hoste for the French Navy in 1697.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1702) Sets of instructions issued by George Rooke for navies implemented for the Cadiz and Vigo operations.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1710) Sets of instructions issued by the Admiralty for permanent Royal Navy instructions.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1711) Sets of instructions issued by John Norris.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1714) Sets of instructions issued by Johnathan Greenwood, for the Royal Navy.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1739) Sets of instructions issued by Edward Vernon, for the British West Indies Fleet.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1744) Sets of instructions issued by William Rowley, for the British Mediterranean Fleet.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1746) Sets of instructions issued by W Trelawney.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1747) Sets of instructions issued by Edward Hawke, and George Anson for the British Mediterranean Fleet. Considered to be one of the most important manuscripts of naval tactics in English history.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1748) Sets of instructions issued by John Millan for Merchant ships under Royal Navy Convoy.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1755) Sets of instructions issued by Edward Hawke, and Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth for the Seven Years' War.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1756) Sets of instructions issued by the Admiralty, Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth, Hon Richard Howe, and Charles Hanby. Each Admiral or Captain wrote separate instructions.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1757) Sets of instructions issued by Augustus John, and Edward Hawke for the British Mediterranean Fleets during the Seven Years' War.
- Signauz et Ordres (1757) Sets of instructions issued by La Clue Sabran, for the Battle of Minorca.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1758) Sets of instructions issued by Comte D'Aché, and George Pocock. Each wrote different instructions, D'Aché for the French, Pocock for the British.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1759) Sets of instructions issued by Comte D'Aché, and Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans for the French West Indies Fleet, and for the Battle of Quiberon Bay.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1760) Sets of instructions issued by Charles Saunders for the British Mediterranean Fleet.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1762) Sets of instructions issued by Richard Howe for his cruiser squadron blockading Rochefort, France.
- Tactique Navale ou Traité des Évolutions et des Signaux (1763) Sets of instructions issued by Vicomte de Morogues.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1768) Sets of instructions issued by Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn for his small English Channel squadron.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1770) Sets of instructions issued by Richard Howe for the British Mediterranean Fleet. No known date of his instructions publication; either between March 1762, or June 1776.
- Tactique Navale à l'usage de l'arméee du Roi commandée par M le Cte d'Orvilliers (1776) Sets of instructions issued by Captain du Pavillon for the French Navy.
- Rudimentos de Táctica Naval para Instruction de los Officiales Subalternos de Marina (1776) Sets of instructions issued by José de Mazarredo Salazar for the Spanish Navy.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1777) Sets of instructions issued by Charles Knowles for British fleets active in the American War of Independence.
- Tactique Naval, ou Traité sur les Evolutions, sur les Signaux et sur les Mouvemens de Guerre Chef d'Esacadre (1778) Sets of instructions issued by Claude François.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1778) Sets of instructions issued by Augustus Keppel for his own squadron at the Battle of Ushant (1778).
- Tactique Navale (1779) Sets of instructions issued by Louis Guillouet for fleets active in the American War of Independence.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1780) Sets of instructions issued by William Dickson.
- Sailing and Fighting Instructions (1781) Sets of instructions issued by George Darby for the Channel Fleet during the American War of Independence.
- Movemens Généraux á l'Usage de L'Arméee de Roi Comdée par Mons le Comte de Grasse (1781) Sets of instructions issued by Comte de Grasse used in the Battle of Tobago.
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