Enterprise

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Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to:

Business and economics

Brands and enterprises

General

  • Business, economic activity done by a businessperson
  • Big business, larger corporation commonly called "enterprise" in business jargon (excluding small and medium-sized businesses)
  • Company, a legal entity practicing a business activity
  • Enterprise architecture, a strategic management discipline within an organization
  • Enterprise Capital Fund, a type of venture capital in the UK
  • Entrepreneurship, the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
  • Social enterprise, an organization that applies commercial strategies to improve well-being
  • United Kingdom enterprise law, the regulation of businesses and public sector bodies within the economic constitution

Organizations

Computing

Entertainment and media

Television

Fictional entities

Star Trek vessels

Other fictional vessels

Newspapers

Australia

United States

Places

Canada

United States

Other places

Vehicles

Aircraft

Spacecraft

For Star Trek craft, see § Star Trek vessels.

Trains

Watercraft

United States Navy ships

(Chronological)

Royal Navy ships

(Chronological)

  • HMS Enterprise (1705) was a 24-gun sixth rate, previously the French frigate L'Entreprise, captured in May 1705. She was wrecked in October 1707.
  • HMS Enterprise (1709) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1709. She underwent a great repair in 1718–19, was hulked in 1740 and fitted as a hospital ship in 1745 before being sold in 1749.
  • HMS Liverpool (1741), a 44-gun frigate, was to have been named Enterprise, but was renamed five months before her launch in 1741.
  • HMS Enterprize (1743) was an 8 gun sloop captured from the Spanish in 1743. She was employed solely in the Mediterranean as a dispatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca.
  • HMS Enterprise was a 48-gun fifth rate launched in 1693 as HMS Norwich (1693). She was renamed Enterprise in 1744 as a 44-gun fifth rate and was broken up in 1771.
  • HMS Enterprise (1774) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate launched in August 1774, on harbour service from 1790 and broken up in 1807.
  • HMS Enterprize (1775) was a 10-gun tender captured by the Americans in 1775, see USS Enterprise (1775).
  • HMS Enterprise was a ship used for harbour service, launched in 1778 as HMS Resource. Resource was rebuilt as a 22-gun floating battery in 1804, renamed Enterprise in 1806 and sold in 1816.
  • HMS Enterprise (1824) was a wooden paddle gunvessel purchased in 1824 and in service until 1830.
  • HMS Enterprise (1848) was a survey sloop launched in 1848, used as a coal hulk from 1860 and sold in 1903.
  • HMS Enterprise was to have been a wooden screw sloop. She was laid down in 1861, renamed HMS Circassian in 1862 but cancelled in 1863.
  • HMS Enterprise (1864) was an ironclad sloop ordered as HMS Circassian, but renamed in 1862. She was launched in 1864 and sold in 1884.
  • HMS Enterprise (D52) was an Emerald-class light cruiser launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
  • HMS Enterprise (A71) was an Echo-class inshore survey ship launched in 1958 and sold in 1985.
  • HMS Enterprise (H88) is an Echo-class multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.

Other ships

Ship classes

Other uses

See also

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