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Enterprise: 70-ton sloop-of-war: 10 May 1775 7 July 1777 Burned to prevent capture, 7 July 1777. This ship was not a ship of the U.S. Navy. It was captured from the British and operated on Lake Champlain by Col Benedict Arnold of the Continental Army. The Continental Navy did not operate on Lake Champlain. Enterprise (1776) 25-ton schooner ...
Enterprise's first action came on 1 August 1801 when, 7 leagues west of Malta, [25] she defeated the 14-gun Tripolitan Polacca, [26] corsair Tripoli, after a fierce but one-sided battle. Enterprise emerged unscathed and sent the battered pirate into port. The action was described in Washington City's National Intelligencer & Adv. on 18 November ...
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned [12] United States Navy aircraft carrierIn 1958, she became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, and the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name.
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 435 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 90 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 70 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name.Colloquially called "The Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
Enterprise (1776), a Continental Navy schooner, formerly a privateer, used in Chesapeake Bay as a convoy and patrol ship until 1777; Enterprise (1814), a commercial steamboat that delivered supplies and troops during the Battle of New Orleans; Enterprise (slave ship), a merchant vessel in the coastwise slave trade in the early 19th century
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Enterprise sank the torpedo boat T26 with a torpedo, while T25 and Z27 were also sunk. Four other German ships were damaged in the engagement. From 3–29 February 1944, Enterprise was docked at Devonport for refit, and from 27–31 March she was fitted for missile jamming gear at Devonport.