HMS Enterprise
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Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise (or HMS Enterprize) while another was planned:
was a 24-gun sixth-rate
, previously the French frigate L'Entreprise, captured in May 1705. She was wrecked in October 1707. was a 44-gun fifth-rate
launched in 1709. She underwent a Great Repair in 1718-19, was hulked in 1740 and fitted as a hospital ship in 1745 before being sold in 1749.
Four ships served with the Royal Navy were named Enterprise but were not commissioned warships and so did not have the "HMS" ship prefix.
was a 24-gun sixth-rate
Sixth-rate
Sixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.-Rating:...
, previously the French frigate L'Entreprise, captured in May 1705. She was wrecked in October 1707. was a 44-gun fifth-rate
Fifth-rate
In Britain's Royal Navy during the classic age of fighting sail, a fifth rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchal system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.-Rating:...
launched in 1709. She underwent a Great Repair in 1718-19, was hulked in 1740 and fitted as a hospital ship in 1745 before being sold in 1749.
- HMS Enterprise was to have been a 44-gun fifth-rate. She was renamed HMS Liverpool five months before her launch in 1741. was an 8 gun sloopSloop-of-warIn the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
captured from the Spanish in 1743. She was employed solely in the Mediterranean as a despatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca. - HMS EnterpriseHMS Norwich (1693)HMS Norwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, relaunching on 20 May 1718. In 1744 she was reduced to a fifth rate and renamed HMS Enterprise...
was a 48-gun fifth-rate launched in 1693 as HMS NorwichHMS Norwich (1693)HMS Norwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, relaunching on 20 May 1718. In 1744 she was reduced to a fifth rate and renamed HMS Enterprise...
. She was renamed HMS Enterprise in 1744 as a 44-gun fifth-rate and was broken up in 1771. was a 28-gun Enterprise classEnterprise class frigateThe Enterprise-class frigates were the final class of 28-gun sailing frigates of the sixth-rate to be produced for the Royal Navy. These twenty-seven vessels were designed in 1770 by John Williams. A first batch of five ships were ordered as part of the programme sparked by the Falklands Islands...
sixth-rate frigate launched in August 1774, on harbour service from 1790 and broken up in 1807. was a 10-gun tender captured by the Americans in 1775. - HMS EnterpriseHMS Resource (1778)HMS Resource was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Resource was first commissioned in July 1778 under the command of Captain Patrick Fotheringham.- References :...
was a ship used for harbour service, launched in 1778 as HMS ResourceHMS Resource (1778)HMS Resource was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Resource was first commissioned in July 1778 under the command of Captain Patrick Fotheringham.- References :...
. Resource was rebuilt as a 22-gun floating battery in 1804, renamed HMS Enterprise in 1806 and sold in 1816. was a wood paddle gunvessel purchased in 1824 and in service until 1830. was a survey sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
launched in 1848, used as a coal hulk from 1860 and sold in 1903. - HMS Enterprise was to have been a wood screw sloopSloop-of-warIn the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
. She was laid down in 1861, renamed HMS Circassian in 1862 but cancelled in 1863. was an ironclad sloop ordered as HMS Circassian, but renamed in 1862. She was launched in 1864 and sold in 1884. was an Emerald-classEmerald class cruiserThe Emerald or E class was a class of two light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. Following the Cavendish Class, three ships of a new class were ordered in March 1918, towards the end of World War I, designed to emphasise high speed at the cost of other qualities, for use against rumoured new high...
light cruiserLight cruiserA light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck...
launched in 1919 and sold in 1946. was an Echo-classEcho class survey ship (1957)The Echo class was a class of inshore survey vessel built for the British Royal Navy in 1958–1959. The class was designed to operate in close waters such as harbour approaches, shipping lanes, rivers and estuaries...
inshore survey ship launched on 1958 and sold in 1985. is an Echo-class multi-role survey vessel (Hydrographic/Oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.
Four ships served with the Royal Navy were named Enterprise but were not commissioned warships and so did not have the "HMS" ship prefix.
- Enterprise, was a British East India Company's armed paddle steamer that served alongside the Fleet in the First China War from 1839 to 1840 and the Second Burmese War in 1852.
- Enterprise, was an uncommissioned tugboat that was in service at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1899 to 1919 when she was renamed Emprise. (She continued to serve until 1947.)
- Enterprise, was an uncommissioned auxiliary patrol anti-submarine netAnti-submarine netAn anti-submarine net is a device placed across the mouth of a harbour or a strait for protection against submarines.-Examples of anti-submarine nets:*Lake Macquarie anti-submarine boom*Indicator net*Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign...
drifterDrifter (fishing boat)A drifter is a type of fishing boat. They were designed to catch herrings in a long drift net. Herring fishing using drifters has a long history in the Netherlands and in many British fishing ports, particularly in East Scottish ports....
with Harwich Local Forces from 1914 to 1918. - Enterprise II, was an uncommissioned drifter, originally based at Larne but transferred to Italian waters in November 1915. In March 1916 she struck a naval mine off BrindisiBrindisiBrindisi is a city in the Apulia region of Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea.Historically, the city has played an important role in commerce and culture, due to its position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city...
and sank with eight casualties.