I'm not sure I understand your post, but I want to understand it. Are you saying research vessels often have names pulled from literature?
Tempest does look small. She's definitely no bigger than Normandy SR1, and possibly smaller. It's hard to tell, even with all of the shots we get of her landed on the various worlds. We never see the full ship in any of those shots. It certainly would make sense, on multiple levels, if she were not a frigate.
Nope, just that whichever new class of vessel the Tempest is a part of, it'd make sense for them to be named after works of literature, if only 'cause there's more names to choose between than there would be if they were named after, say, meteorological phenomena. Here, I'll take the dashes out to make it a little clearer:
"My suspicion is that, whichever classification of ship the Tempest is, the tradition is to name ships of the class after famous works of literature. "
Scientific research ships have all sorts of names. The earliest examples - HMS Beagle and HMS Challenger - were just repurposed naval craft, and so followed the same naming traditions as the rest of the navy. Later ships, built explicitly for exploration, tended to have names that evoked their purpose - Endeavour, Terra Nova, Endurance, and so on - or were named for famous explorers, scientists and naturalists--the RRS Sir David Attenborough being the most recent example.
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