survey vessels of the Royal Navy List of Royal Navy shore establishments By namesake List of people with Royal Navy ships named after them Fictional RN ship names Many novels and films about the Royal Navy feature fictional ships, but most use real names. This is a list of fictional names of note. Where real ship names are used fictionally, there is a link to the actual ships using that name. Fictional wooden RN ships In novels Argonaute (from Colours Aloft by Alexander Kent) Atropos (from Hornblower and the Atropos by C. S. Forester) Bellipotent (from Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville) Caligula (from A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester) Clam (from Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester) Clorinda (from Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester) Crab (from Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester) Harvey and Moth (bomb ketches) (from The Commodore by C. S. Forester) Flame (from Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester) (from a 1970s urban myth) (from Mr Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat) (from Hornblower and the Hotspur by C. S. Forester) Justinian (from Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester) (from The Commodore by C. S. Forester) Lydia (from The Happy Return by C. S. Forester) (from Hornblower and the Atropos by C. S. Forester) (from The Commodore by C. S. Forester) (from Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester) Pinafore (from the operetta H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan) Polychrest (from Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian) Porta Coeli (from Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester) Pucelle (from Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell) (from A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester) (from Lieutenant Hornblower by C. S. Forester) (from Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester) (from Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian; based on the actual ) (from HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian; based on the actual frigate ) (from A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours by C. S. Forester) Themis (from Under Enemy Colors by S. Thomas Russell) (from the scatalogical drinking song "Good Ship Venus"; although this usage is apocryphal, the ship name has been used five times by the RN between 1758 and 1972) Witch of Endor (from Flying Colours by C. S. Forester) In film, television and radio (from 1962 Peter Ustinov/Terence Stamp film Billy Budd) and Interceptor (from the