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This Enterprise was the first vessel of the United States Navy to carry the name. Fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitanian ship Tripoli . Broken up after being stranded on Little Curacao Island in the West Indies .
The USS Enterprise was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799 for the United States Navy. Her first commander thought that she was too lightly built and that her quarters, in particular, should be bulletproofed.
USS Enterprise was a Continental Army sloop-of-war that served in Lake Champlain during the American Revolutionary War.She was the first of a long and prestigious line of ships of the United States or by the combatant forces of the U.S. Revolutionary War to bear the name Enterprise.
The lead ship of this class, the USS Lexington, played a key role in the Battle of Coral Sea when its air group scored the first sinking of the battle, destroying the Japanese ship Soho.
This list includes ships that are owned and leased by the US Navy; ships that are formally commissioned, by way of ceremony, and non-commissioned. Ships denoted with the prefix "USS" are commissioned ships. Prior to commissioning, ships may be described as a pre-commissioning unit or PCU, but are officially referred to by name with no prefix. [1]
USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier (1938–1947), the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II USS Enterprise (CVN-65) , the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (1961–2017) USS Enterprise (CVN-80) , a Gerald R. Ford -class aircraft carrier, under construction and scheduled to enter service by 2028
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. She was also the first American ship to sink a full-sized enemy warship after the Pacific War had been declared when her aircraft sank the Japanese submarine I-70 on 10 December 1941. [ 4 ]