USS Enterprise

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For other references see HMS Enterprise.

USS Enterprise may refer to:

United States Navy

Eight ships in the United States Navy carried the name USS Enterprise.

• USS Enterprise (1775), the first ship to bear this name, was originally the uncommissioned British sloop George, captured by American forces in the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Rechristened Enterprise, she served as a sloop-of-war during the American Revolution.
• USS Enterprise (1776), the second ship to bear this name, was a successful privateer before she was purchased on 20 December 1776 for the Continental Navy. Commanded by Captain Joseph Campbell, the schooner Enterprise operated principally in Chesapeake Bay. She convoyed transports, carried out reconnaissance, and guarded the shores against foraging raids by the British. Only meager records of her service have been found; they indicate that she was apparently returned to the Maryland Council of Safety before the end of February 1777.
• USS Enterprise (1799), the third ship to bear this name, was a schooner built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799. She fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitain ship Tripoli.
• USS Enterprise (1831), the fourth ship to bear this name, was also a schooner, and commissioned in 1831.
• USS Enterprise (1874), the fifth ship to bear this name, was a screw sloop commissioned 1877.
• USS Enterprise (SP-790), the sixth ship to bear this name, was a motorboat, served in a noncommissioned status in the Second Naval District during World War I.
• USS Enterprise (CV-6), the seventh ship to bear this name, was an aircraft carrier, was the most-decorated U.S. Navy vessel of World War II.
• USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the eighth ship to bear this name, was the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier, launched in 1960 and still on active service as of 2006.
  • This Enterprise is set to be decomissioned in 2013, and as a result there is a growing movement to name one of the CVN-21 class carriers (preferably CVN-78) Enterprise.

Star Trek

In the fictional television series Star Trek there have been six starships that have carried the name USS Enterprise.

• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from Star Trek Pilot, TOS, The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) from Star Trek The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) from Star Trek Generations
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) from Star Trek TNG episode Yesterday's Enterprise
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek TNG, Generations
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) from Star Trek First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis

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