Good Ol' Wikipedia.
I read that there had been eight ships in the Navy with the name Enterprise. I knew the most about the World War II aircraft carrier.
1. 1775 sloop-of-war sailing ship operating on Lake Champlain in Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War, 22-guns.
2. 1776 Continental Navy schooner sailing ship, Revolutionary War, 8 guns.
3. 1779 schooner, 12 guns. In Quasi War with France, Barbary War and War of 1812.
4. 1831 schooner, 10-guns. Served 1831-1844.
5. 1877 Screw-sloop-of-war, 6 guns
6. motorboat, never commissioned.
7. 1938, aircraft carrier saw service in World War II, 6th US carrier.
8 Current aircraft carrier
Other Enterprises in US service: steamboat used at War of 1812 Battle of New Orleans, Civil War military balloon and a space shuttle.
Then there were lots and lots of Enterprises in all the Star Trek TV shows and movies.
A Real get-Up -and-Go Kind of Ship. --DaCoot
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