List of ship names of the Royal Navy

This is an alphabetical list of all the "names" of ships that have ever been in service with the Royal Navy. Many of the names have been re-used over the years and thus represent more than one ship.

Altogether over 13,000 ships have been in service with the Royal Navy. [Colledge and Warlow (2006) "Page viii".]

Note that, unlike many other naval services, the Royal Navy designates certain types of shore establishment (e.g. barracks and naval airfields) as 'ships' and names them accordingly. These establishments are often referred to in service slang as "stone frigates".

Due to the large number of names the list has been split into smaller lists

A
B
C
D-F
G-H
I-L
M-N
O-Q
R-T
U-Z

Fictional

Many novels about the Royal Navy feature fictional "ships", but most use real "names". This is a list of fictional names of note.

* "Argonaute" (from "Colors Aloft" by Alexander Kent)
* "Atropos" (from "Hornblower and the Atropos" by C. S. Forester)
* "Bellipotent" (from "Billy Budd, Sailor" by Herman Melville)
* "Carousel" (from "We Saw the Sea" by Robert Winton)
* "Clam" and "Moth" (Bomb ketches) (from "Commodore Hornblower" by C. S. Forester)
* "Clampherdown" (from "The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"" by Rudyard Kipling)
* "Compass Rose" and "Saltash" (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)
* "Lydia" (from "The Happy Return" by C. S. Forester)
* "Pinafore" (from the operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan)
* "Polychrest" (from "Post Captain" by Patrick O'Brian)
* "Sophie" (from "Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian) (Based on the actual ship HM Sloop "Speedy")
* "Thunder Child" (from "The War of the Worlds", by H.G. Wells)
* H.M.S Troutbridge from "The Navy Lark"

Notes

References

ee also

* List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
* List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy
* List of battleships of the Royal Navy
* List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
* List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
* List of destroyers of the Royal Navy
* List of fast patrol boats of the Royal Navy
* List of frigates of the Royal Navy
* List of corvettes and sloops of the Royal Navy
* List of gunboats and gunvessels of the Royal Navy
* List of monitors of the Royal Navy
* List of mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy (includes minesweepers and mine hunters)
* List of Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship names
* List of submarines of the Royal Navy
* List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy
* List of Royal Navy shore establishments