The following is a list of Royal Navy ship names by name in alphabetical order, both past and present. Many of the names have been re-used over the years and thus represent different ships.
(Note that this list still lacks many important ships.)
... 19th century, became known to Europeans from the travels of Martin Gerritz de Vries[?] in the 17th century, and still better from those of La Pérouse (1787) and Krusenstern ...