Hmm battlecruisers.
How about the Invincible class? After the world's first battlecruisers. Ship names could include Invincible, Indomitable, Indefatigable, Renown, Repulse, Hood, Sharnhorst, Dunkerque, Kong?, Tiger, and Kirov.
All those ships have been described as battlecruisers and cover a period from the early 20th century to the present day.