Osprey (disambiguation)

Osprey may refer to:

Ospreys, medium-large fish-eating birds of prey in the genus Pandion.

Geography

• Osprey, Florida, a town in the United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Video games

• Osprey, a cruiser class ship from the MMORPG Eve Online

Businesses

• Osprey Media, a Canadian publishing group of daily and weekly newspapers and specialty publications
• Osprey Packs, Inc., a backpack and travelpack manufacturer based in Colorado, USA
• Osprey Publishing, a British publishing company that specializes in books on military history and military equipment
• Sandvik Osprey, a British metallurgical company

Military

• Operation Osprey

Sports

• Ospreys (rugby team), a Welsh rugby union team that plays its home matches in Swansea, Wales
• Missoula Osprey, a minor league baseball team in Missoula, Montana, USA
• North Florida Ospreys, the athletic team name for the University of North Florida
• "Osprey", a sporting and social focus for female athletes at the University of Cambridge, England

Technology

• Osprey body armour, a body armour system used by the British military
• Osprey process, a spray forming process owned by Sandvik Osprey
• Osprey, a fault tolerant MapReduce like system proposed in Osprey: Implementing MapReduce-Style Fault Tolerance in a Shared-Nothing Distributed Database

Transportation

Aircraft

(Chronological)

• Hawker Osprey (from 1932), the navalised carrier-borne version of the Hawker Hart biplane
• Osprey Osprey I (from 1970), Sport flying boat
• Osprey Osprey 2 (from 1973), Sport amphibian
• Monaghan Osprey (from 1973), glider
• Paraplane PSE-2 Osprey (from 1990s), an American powered parachute design
• Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey (from 1989), tiltrotor aircraft manufactured by Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing

Ships

• HMS Osprey, five ships and a shore establishment of the British Royal Navy
• USS Osprey, several ships of the United States Navy
• USS Osprey II (SP-928), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
• Osprey class coastal minehunter, a class of United States Navy minehunting vessels
• Osprey dinghy, a sailing dinghy that was designed by Ian Proctor that can be sailed with a crew of two or three, with one trapeze

Trains

• Osprey, the allocated name of the South African LNER Class A4 4488 steam locomotive, which displayed the nameplate "Osprey" during the 1980s and early 1990s. The name was carried by LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60131 from its entry into service in October 1948 until its withdrawal in October 1965