USS Enterprise

For other references see Enterprise or HMS 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:

• USS Enterprise (1775) armed sloop (18 May 1775 – 7 July 1777), the first American ship to bear the name served on Lake Champlain
• Enterprise (1776) schooner (20 December 1776 – February 1777), the second American ship to bear this name served on Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary War.

United States Navy

Six ships of the United States Navy have been named Enterprise:

• USS Enterprise (1799) 12-gun schooner / 14-gun brig (17 December 1799 – 9 July 1823), the third ship to bear this name, was built as schooner, and later rerigged as a brig. She fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitanian ship Tripoli
• USS Enterprise (1831) 10-gun schooner (15 December 1831 – 24 June 1844), the fourth ship to bear this name
• USS Enterprise (1874) barque-rigged screw sloop (16 March 1877 – 1 October 1909), the fifth ship to bear this name
• USS Enterprise (SP-790) motor yacht (1917–1919), the sixth ship to bear this name, was non-commissioned, serving in the Second Naval District during World War I
• USS Enterprise (CV-6) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier (12 May 1938 – 17 February 1947), the seventh ship to bear this name, served with great distinction in World War II, becoming the most-decorated vessel in the history of the U.S. Navy.
• USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Enterprise-class aircraft carrier (25 November 1961 – Present), the eighth ship to bear this name, is a unique design, and the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. It is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2013.

U.S. Navy building

• USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), commissioned building (27 May 2005 – Present), this recruit barracks is a building the Navy treats like a ship for training purposes.

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.
• USTS Kennedy (T-AK-5059), former USTS Enterprise (2003–2008), USNS 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 Senator Kennedy.

Star Trek

In the fictional Star Trek universe, there have been a number of starships named Enterprise (where the designation refers to United Federation of Planets Star Ship rather than United States Ship):

• USS Enterprise (XCV 330) Declaration class (circa 2130s) from art in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and the series Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Enterprise (NX-01) NX class (2151–2161) from the series Star Trek: Enterprise.
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Constitution class (2245–2285) from the original Star Trek series, the first three films and 2009's Star Trek.
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) Constitution (also listed as Enterprise) class (2286–2293) from the films The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country.
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) Excelsior class (2293–2320s) from the film Generations.
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) Ambassador class (2332–2344) from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise".
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Galaxy class (2363–2371) from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation and film Generations.
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) Sovereign class (2372—) from the films First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Odyssey class (2409-) from Star Trek Online "prime" time line
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) (26th century) from the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Azati Prime"

From licensed Star Trek fiction and notable unlicensed films

• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) (late 24th century) from the novel Imzadi and the Millennium trilogy of Star Trek novels
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-M) Constitution class (2306—) a museum ship from the Tim Russ production Star Trek: Of Gods and Men

See also

• VSS Enterprise, the first commercial spaceship being constructed by Virgin Galactic.