List of Warships By Nickname - O

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• "O'Broken" — USS O'Brien
• "The O-Boat" - USS Oriskany
• "Old Formy" - HMS Formindable
• "Old Ironsides" — USS Constitution
• "The Old Lady" — HMS Warspite, from a comment by Viscount Cunningham; impressed by the vintage ship's speed during a mission to aid the British Army in Sicily, Cunningham remarked, "When the old lady lifts her skirts she can run."
• "Old Salt" — USS Nimitz
• "One-Eye" — HMS Polyphemus; Polyphemus was a cyclops in Greek mythology
• "Orjalaiva Kurjala" - Finnish Navy corvette Karjala. The word orjalaiva means slave ship in Finnish, while Kurjala references the Finnish word kurja ("miserable").
• "Outrageous" — HMS Courageous; humorous malapropism