Why call it the ‘English Navy’ though? after 1707, it would have been the ‘British Navy’. Although the correct title throughout it’s entire history has been the ‘Royal Navy’ and that is what it should be called, as there is no other navy in the English-speaking world called the ‘Royal Navy’....
Who knows? The politically correct academic world has so muddied the waters of history, thats its tough to discern the agendas..