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.)
... 1897.
Thomas à Kempis belonged to the school of
mystics who were scattered along the Rhine from
Switzerland to Strasburg and Cologne and in the
Netherlands. He was a ...