Definition of "fleeter"

The response of a dispersed ownership, however, could not parallel that of a unified one as in the case of the Yarmouth fleeters.

2002, Trevor Lummis, Occupation and Society: The East Anglian Fishermen 1880-1914, page 32

The ships that initially arrived in Australia with convict cargo were called the First Fleet. Those aboard were consequently the First Fleeters.

2010, Adam Ward, Everything You Didn't Need to Know About Australia