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.)
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Alexandra David-Néel, (1868-1969), French explorer, visited Lhasa, Tibet in 1924
Cavalier de la Salle[?], explorer
Hernando de Soto, (died 1542), ...