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.)
... Lake Tanganyika and the Congo River
William Stairs, (1863-1892), Victorian explorer, discovered one source of the Nile River, first non-African to ever climb
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