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.)
... explorer, visited Lhasa, Tibet in 1924
Cavalier de la Salle[?], explorer
Hernando de Soto, (died 1542), explorer
Bartolomeu Dias, (1450-1500), Portuguese explorer who ...