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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: Enterprise (lead ship) 25 November 1961 3 February 2017 55 years, 70 days Struck, to be scrapped [63] CV-66 America: Kitty Hawk: 23 January 1965 9 August 1996 31 years, 199 days Sunk as target ship in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005 [64] CV-67 John F. Kennedy: John F. Kennedy (lead ship) 7 September 1968 23 March 2007 38 years, 197 days
The CV-6 is acknowledged during a discussion of past vessels named Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture while CVN-65 is featured in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Jack C. Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, had served on Enterprise as a fighter pilot during the war, and (re-)named his company in 1969 after the ship. [55] [56]
Enterprise (slave ship), a merchant vessel in the coastwise slave trade in the early 19th century; Enterprise (yacht), a J-class yacht that won the 1930 America's Cup; SS Flying Enterprise, an American cargo ship (1944–1952) USTS Enterprise (2003–2008), former name of TS Kennedy, a training ship at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy
ships named Enterprise; there is a continuing exception for this name, first used in 1775, eight ships have carried the name, including three aircraft carriers (CV-6, CVN-65 and CVN-80). USS Nimitz (CVN-68) , lead ship of her class , named for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz , commander of all U.S. and Allied naval forces in the Pacific theatre ...
List of ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise; Bibliography of early American naval history; The fictional Star Ship USS Enterprise, featured in the Star Trek television and films series, is named after the real life line of naval vessels named Enterprise.
On 1 December 2012, during the presentation of a pre-recorded speech at the inactivation ceremony for USS Enterprise (CVN-65), then-Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that CVN-80 would be named Enterprise. [11] She will be the ninth ship and the third aircraft carrier in the history of the United States Navy to bear the name. [9]
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 world, as well as the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name.