Why the Royal Navy reused captured names and remembered defeats

Why did the Royal Navy reuse names associated with captured French ships or British defeats?

Captured names became part of Royal Navy tradition, while many commemorated defeats were Army reverses that also supported interservice humor.

The Royal Navy could retain the names of captured French ships and reuse them for later vessels. Names associated with British defeats also remained available. Many of those reverses belonged to the Army, allowing the senior service to preserve a historical name while teasing another service. That rivalry coexisted with the Navy's willingness to rescue the Army at places such as Crete and Dunkirk.