HMS Enterprise
The name HMS Enterprise (partly also Enterprize) was or is being carried by various British ships. The prefix HMS stands for His / Her Majesty's Ship and identifies the ship as part of the British Royal Navy .
Ship list
- Enterprise (ship, 1705) , originally a French frigate, captured by the British and put into service under a new name in 1705.
- HMS Enterprise (1709) .
- A ship that was planned as HMS Enterprise, but was renamed HMS Liverpool shortly before being launched in 1741 .
- HMS Enterprize (1743) .
- A ship that entered service as HMS Norwich in 1693 and renamed HMS Enterprise in 1744.
- HMS Enterprize (1774) , at the same time the namesake for a class of frigates.
- A ship entered service as HMS Resource in 1778 , renamed HMS Enterprize in 1803; Sister ship of the HMS Enterprize (1774) .
- HMS Enterprise (1848) .
- HMS Enterprise (1864) , the ship was originally supposed to be called HMS Circassian. However, the name was changed to HMS Enterprise before it was launched in 1862.
- HMS Enterprise (D52) , a light cruiser that entered service in 1926 and was scrapped in 1946.
- HMS Enterprise (A71) , entered service in 1958.
- HMS Enterprise (H88) , a Royal Navy research vessel commissioned in 2002.
Another ship named HMS Enterprise was planned in 1861. However, the ship's name was changed to HMS Circassian during construction and construction was abandoned entirely in 1863.
Ships named Enterprise without the prefix HMS
Four other ships with the name Enterprise were used in connection with the British Royal Navy, but without the prefix HMS in their names:
- An East India Company ship .
- Tugboat in Portsmouth Harbor, commissioned in 1899.
- Enterprise and Enterprise II , auxiliary ships that were used in World War I.
For US ships named Enterprise or Enterprize , see USS Enterprise .
literature
- David Lyon: Sailing Navy List . Conway Maritime Press, London 1997, ISBN 0-85177-864-X