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.)
... the Strait of Tartary, which was discovered in 1809 by a Japanese, Mamiya Rinzo[?]. The Russian navigator Nevelskoi in 1849 definitively established the existence and ...