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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.
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
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.
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned [12] United States Navy aircraft carrier In 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 .
The action of 1 August 1801 was a single-ship action of the First Barbary War fought between the American schooner USS Enterprise and the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli off the coast of modern-day Libya. As part of Commodore Richard Dale 's Mediterranean Squadron , Enterprise had been deployed with the American force blockading the Vilayet of Tripoli .
USS Adams (1799), scuttled 3 September 1814 to prevent capture USS Albany (1846), lost after 28–29 September 1854 with approx. 197 aboard USS Alligator (1813), captured 14 December 1814