Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Omaha after the city of Omaha, Nebraska: USS Omaha, an Algoma-class screw sloop commissioned in 1872; served in Atlantic and Asiatic Squadrons, scrapped in 1914 USS Omaha, lead ship of the Omaha-class light cruisers, commissioned in 1923; served during World War II, scrapped in 1946 USS Omaha, a Los Angeles-class submarine commissioned in 1978; decommissioned in 1995, scrapped in 2012 USS Omaha, an Independence-class littoral combat ship commissioned in 2012 Wikipedia