List of Warships By Nickname - T

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  • "T.R." – USS Theodore Roosevelt
  • "Tea Boat" – HMS Ceylon
  • "Tea Chest" – HMS Thetis
  • "Teacup" – USS Tecumseh
  • "Tico" – USS Ticonderoga
  • "Tiddly Quid" – HMS Royal Sovereign. Both quid and sovereign are synonymous to pound sterling.
  • "Tin Duck" – HMS Iron Duke
  • "Three-Quarter Mile Island" - USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
  • "The Toothless Terror" – HMS Scylla
  • "Toasted O" - USS Oriskany
  • "Traffie" – HMS Trafalgar
  • "Trawler Mauler" - HMCS Nipigon - stems from an incident in the late 1980s when Nipigon sank a civilian fishing trawler for being a hazard to shipping
  • "Tullibeast" – USS Tullibee
  • "The Tartan Terror" - HMAS Stuart
  • "Tottenham" - HMS Hotspur. After football team Tottenham Hotspur.
  • "Tupperware" - HMS Wilton. First warship to be constructed from Glass-reinforced plastic.
  • "Tuska class" - Finnish navy Tuima class missile boats. Tuska means "agony" in Finnish.

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