Old Ironsides may refer to: Nicknames Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), English general, Lord Protector and politician whose nickname was "Old Ironsides" , a 100-gun Royal Navy first rate ship-of-the-line active during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars , a 44-gun United States Navy frigate, still in commission 1st Armored Division, an armored division of the United States Army Norman Keith Collins (aka Sailor Jerry), "Old Ironsides" was his nickname on his radio show Other uses "Old Ironsides", an article by James Fenimore Cooper published posthumously in 1853 Old Ironsides (album), by hip-hop duo Mars ILL Old Ironsides (film), a 1926 film directed by James Cruze and starring Wallace Beery Old Ironsides (locomotive), the first locomotive built by Matthias W. Baldwin "Old Ironsides" (poem), an 1830 poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. as a tribute to the USS Constitution Old Ironsides (VTA), a light rail station in Santa Clara California See also USS New Ironsides Ironside (disambiguation)