HMS Enterprise

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HMS Enterprise may refer to:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise or HMS Enterprize.

• HMS Enterprise (1705), the first ship of the British Navy named Enterprise was the French frigate L'Entreprise of 24 guns, captured from the French in 1705. After capture she served as a sixth-rate in the British Navy.
• HMS Enterprize (1709), the second ship to bear this name, was a fifth-rate of 40 guns launched in 1709.
• HMS Enterprize (1743), the third ship to bear this name, was a barca longa captured from Spain in 1743 in the Mediterranean and rated as a sloop. She was employed as a despatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca.
• HMS Enterprize (1718), the fourth ship to bear this name, was originally HMS Norwich of 50 guns, rebuilt and reduced to a fifth-rate of 44 guns in 1744 and in service until 1764.
• HMS Enterprize (1774), the fifth ship to bear this name, was the lead ship of a class of 27 sixth-rate frigates, was launched in 1774 and served until 1784, then as a receiving ship thereafter.
• HMS Enterprise (1848), the sixth ship to bear this name, was a merchant vessel purchased in 1848 for Arctic exploration.
• HMS Enterprise (1864), the seventh ship to bear this name, was a sloop of war launched in 1864 and sold in 1884.
• HMS Enterprise (D52), the eighth ship to bear this name, was an Emerald-class light cruiser, launched in 1919 and in service during World War II.
• HMS Enterprise (A71), the ninth ship to bear this name, was an Inshore Survey ship in service from 1959 to 1985.
• HMS Enterprise (H88), the tenth ship to bear this name is a multi-role Survey Vessel (Hydrographic/Oceanographic) launched in 2002 and commissioned in 2003.

Four ships served with the Royal Navy were named Enterprise but were not commissioned warships and so are not entitled to 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 net drifter 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 Brindisi and sank with eight casualties.