List of Warships By Nickname - A

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• "Abe" — USS Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln is often informally referred to as "Abe"
• "Ageless Warrior" — USS Coral Sea
• "Aggie" — HMS Agamemnon
• "Aggie on Horseback" — HMS Weston-Super-Mare; nickname named for Agnes Weston, a temperance and sailor's advocate; "on horseback" is a jocular mistranslation of Latin "super-mare" ("on the sea"), "mare" being equated with a female horse
• "'A Gin Court"; HMS Agincourt; Battleship seized from turkey 1914 because of its luxurious Turkish outfit
• "'Am and Tripe" — HMS Amphitrite; humorous malapropism
• "America's Favorite Carrier" — USS Carl Vinson
• "Angry Cat" — French ship Henri IV; named so by the British, a play on the pronunciation of "Henri Quatre"
• "Archdeacon" — HMS Venerable; a play on the phrase "venerable archdeacon"