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.)
... 2,000; and 1,000 different editions
are preserved in the British Museum. The
Bullingen collection, donated to the city of Cologne in
1838, contained at the time 400 ...