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 fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, and with the "Confessions" of Augustine
and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress it occupies a
front rank, if not the foremost ...