HMS Battleaxe as Tom Clancy said, at least we don’t name our warships after our mothers-in-law
There is a fifth country. The German heavy cruiser was turned over to the US and commisioned as the USS PRINZ EUGEN. The ship was sent to the Pacific and used in the atom bomb tests.
Not a warship, but favorite real ship name: RMS Gigantic (original name of Britannic, renamed after sinking of Titanic)
Fictional: GSS Suicidal Insanity
Just to clarify the motto “Fear God and Dread Nought”.
"Fisher struggled in choosing a motto. He considered “Dreadnought” but considered it too arrogant and egotistical… he considered a paraphrase of Psalm 34: 9 (O fear the Lord ye his saints for there is no want to them who fear him) and Dreadnought as “Dread Nought” is mentioned over 80 times in the Bible. Thus he came up with “Fear God and Dread Nought”.
(Cite- “Dreadnought” by Robert Massie page 541 - and an 1865 Bible)
HMAS Stalwart
A no-nonsense kind of name.
Agreed
Another vote for HMS Warspite. Points for a battleship which sounds permanently pissed off. I’ve also had an affinity for the Battlecruiser Scharnhorst.
Surprised that the above poster missed the WW2 Eugen, by the way. She sailed with the Bismarck.
I’m not sure if this really qualifies, and it’s not actually a list of favourites, but here’s a list of fictitious space ships I wrote down as I struggled painfully through my first (and definitely final) Ian M. Banks work, that abortion of a novel: Excession.
Sleeper Service (Previously ‘Quietly Confident’)
Peace Makes Plenty
Death and Gravity
Problem Child
Meatfucker
Fate Amenable to Change
Ethics Gradient
Sac Slicer II
Fright Spear
Kiss the Blade
Anticipation of a New Lover’s Arrival
Tactical Grace
Woetra
Steely Glint
Serious Callers Only
Wisdom Likes Silence
Shoot Them Later
Limivorous
Not Invented Here
Full Refund
Different Tan
Star Turn
End In Tears
No Fixed Abode
Break Even
FWIW it seemed to me that the author was mocking the reader with his choice of names rather than being cute and entertaining.
I think that HMS Thor is a good name for a warship, though I doubt that The Thunderer would have been pleased to be named for an ambush hunter.
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are also good names. And so terribly appropriate for the fates of the Franklin Expedition they were lost with.
I miss the old tradition of naming birdfarms after battles:
USS Oriskany, in particular is a name I like.
Can’t ignore the ship named for a fictional place, though:
While it’s a good name, you couldn’t get me aboard the current HMS Vanguard, a ballistic missile sub. A.k.a a boomer. Considering the fate of the dreadnought era HMS Vanguard it’s just too suggestive.
USS Wolverine had a great name. And, well, it was a paddle-wheel aircraft carrier! That’s just too cool.
Are you aware of the British Flower-class corvettes?
Just a couple names, not at random:
HMS Pansy (name changed to HMS Heartsease
HMS Hyacinth
HMS Tulip
HMS Gladiolus
Psst, it’s in the OP 
The original Dreadnought was a Tudor ship from the 1500s.
HMS Saucy.
Well last time I offer extremely stupid advice in one of your posts. 
I’ve always been partial to the USS/CSS Queen of the West.
Also a big fan of:
USS Monitor (an armored ship named after a carnivorous lizard)
USS Carondelet (just a lyrical word on the tongue)
USS Tang (named after a fish, but I imagine it as the sound of a bullet bouncing off)
Also the British names, many of those already mentioned. I’ll throw in
HMS Scorpion
HMS Wyvern
And probably my favorite, the USS New Ironsides. “OLD Ironsides” was a nickname, but this one was the formal name of the ship. She has the distinction of being struck by hostile fire more times than any other vessel in United States history, with a total casualty list of one man from all that fire. She also survived a submersible spar torpedo attack (although damaged) and an aborted attempt to detonate a giant mine under her keel.
*New Ironsides *indeed.
Fictionally: in a tabletop game of Wooden Ships & Iron Men – a game which recreates a period in which the worst thing that can happen to a ship is to be subjected to close-range raking fire in her stern – a friend named his ship something flowery in French which he claimed translated as “the Sanctity of the Buttocks.”
The wiki article claims that two of the gun turrets of this class were called “P” and “Q”. I’ll never hear the phrase, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” the same again.
And maybe one in the future, if the Rastafarians build a navy.
For those into alternate timeline SF there is the carrier USS Hillary Clinton, to quote Capt Queeg “I kid you not”.
Not as unlikely as the USS Monica Lewinski.
The most delicious ship of WW2.
The HMS Colossus, Iron Duke, Revenge and Tiger are all good.
The Coast Guard has a cutter named the Midget. :dubious:
I always thought the HMS Serapis had a nice ring to it.
Or Queen Anne’s Revenge
Or The USS Green Bay, it’s bridge is called Lambeau…why yes I’m a Packer fan, why do you ask?
:: nitpick:: THIS site seems to suggest a different kind of Monitor.