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 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 (H88) was an
Echo-class multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and decommissioned in 2023.
Four other ships which served with the Royal Navy were also named Enterprise, but were not commissioned warships and so did not have the "HMS" prefix.
Enterprise, was a British East India Company's armed paddle steamer that served alongside the Fleet in the First China War from 1839 to 1840 and the
Second Burmese War in 1852.
Enterprise, was an uncommissioned tugboat that was in service at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1899 to 1919 when she was renamed Emprise. She continued to serve until 1947.
Enterprise, was an uncommissioned auxiliary patrol
anti-submarine netdrifter with Harwich local forces from 1914 to 1918.
Enterprise II, was an uncommissioned drifter, originally based at Larne but transferred to Italian waters in November 1915. In March 1916 she struck a naval mine off
Brindisi and sank with eight casualties.
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