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.)
... 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 (1805). Both, however, ...