USS Enterprise

USS Enterprise may refer to the following vessels:

United States of America

In watercraft, the prefix "USS" or "U.S.S." ("United States Ship") is applied to ships commissioned by and for the United States Navy. Private citizens also use the name unofficially.

Continental Navy

Two ships of the Continental Navy were named Enterprise:

Name	Class	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
USS Enterprise (1775)	Sloop-of-war	18 May 1775	7 July 1777	Burned to prevent capture
Enterprise (1776)	Schooner	20 December 1776	February 1777	Returned to Maryland Council of Safety

United States Navy

Six ships of the United States Navy have been named Enterprise with a seventh announced:

Name	Class	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
USS Enterprise (1799)	Schooner-class sailing vessel Brig-class sailing vessel	17 December 1799 April 1811	June 1809 8 July 1823	Fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitanian ship Tripoli Stranded. Broke up on Little Curacao Island in the West Indies.
USS Enterprise (1831)	Schooner-class sailing vessel	15 December 1831 29 November 1839	12 July 1839 24 June 1844	Sold, 28 October 1844
USS Enterprise (1874)	Barque-rigged Screw Sloop-class sailing vessel	16 March 1877 12 January 1882 4 October 1887 8 July 1890	9 May 1880 21 March 1886 20 May 1890 1 October 1909	Lent to Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 17 October 1892 - 4 May 1909 Sold, 1 October 1909
Enterprise (SP-790)	Motorboat Patrol boat-class vessel	1917	1919
USS Enterprise (CV-6)	Yorktown-class aircraft carrier	12 May 1938	17 February 1947	Served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, the most awarded and decorated ship from the war. Scrapped, 1 July 1958 - May 1960
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)	Enterprise-class aircraft carrier	25 November 1961	1 December 2012 (Inactivated)	The world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. As of 2012, longest serving combat vessel within the U.S. Navy. In late 2012, was the third-oldest commissioned vessel in the Navy after USS Constitution and USS Pueblo. Decommissioning scheduled, 15 March 2013. Scrapping scheduled, 2013–2015
USS Enterprise (CVN-80)	Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier	2025 (Scheduled)		Announced during Enterprise (CVN-65) inactivation ceremony on 1 December 2012 by Secretary of the Navy

U.S. Navy building

• USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), commissioned building (27 May 2005 – June 2011), this building is the orientation "ship" for students at Great Lakes.

Other American vessels

• Enterprise, a steamboat that participated in the Battle of New Orleans and then demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2,200-mile voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville, Pennsylvania that steamboat commerce was practical on America's western rivers.
• Enterprise (balloon), a balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War.
• Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101), the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, used for test flights in earth atmosphere, landing procedures, and ground tests between 1975 and 1985. It was named after the fictional vessel from the Star Trek franchise, and later appeared in the opening sequence to Star Trek: Enterprise.
• USTS Kennedy (T-AK-5059), former USTS Enterprise (2003–2008), SS Cape Bon (1985–2003), and SS Velma Lykes (1967–1985). Currently a training ship at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, which renamed it after the 1874 Enterprise (the Academy’s first training ship) before renaming it after the Kennedy Family.

See also

• HMS Enterprise, any of fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy