Talk:HMS Enterprise

Vigin Galatic
What is a "Vigin Galatic"? ("VSS Enterprise for the proposed Vigin Galatic ship.") Does it have anything to do with a vegan Vogon? ➥the Epopt 03:09, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry, it is a mispelling of the link on my part. It has been corrected to link to Virgin Galactic now. Fosnez 16:54, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Dumb question, probably; does anyone know which of the HMS Enterprizes is featured in the Star Trek: Enterprise title sequence? Daibhid C 22:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Not dumb question. Was also interested, but unable to identify from picture :-( — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.80.224.229 (talk) 00:49, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

there seems to be a year mixup between the third and fourth enterprises
third enterprise is said to be in the late 1700s, fourth is said to be in the early 1700s —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.202.146.202 (talk) 07:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

This is because the fifth ship listed (I think it is this one to which you are referring, not the fourth, if you include the ship renamed before launch) did not acquire the name HMS Enterprise until she was renamed on 23 May 1744. She was originally built in 1693 as a Fourth Rate and named HMS Norwich, and was rebuilt (still as the Norwich) in 1717-1718 as a Fourth Rate. In 1743 she underwent a Middling Repair and was re-armed as a 44-gun Fifth Rate, and in the following year was accordingly re-registered as a Fifth Rate, being renamed at the same time. Incidentally, the list of HMS Enterprises still omits one further vessel; there was a schooner which served briefly in the West Indies in 1801 and which received the same name; however she did not last more than a few months, and I have no further information on her. Rif Winfield (talk) 01:29, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

a gap: HMS Enterprise at Nulato, Alaska, 1839
I just happened to come across this while looking up other things to do with Alaska/British Columbia history - see this link and look for the "1839: Massacre at Nulato" entry; none of the ships listed overleaf fall into the time frame, there's a gap 1830-1848....Skookum1 (talk) 04:26, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * There are no ships missing from the list, using both volumes of Colledge, the RN's page, and various other ship list sources. It may be that your source is confusing the British East India Company's Enterprise of the period with a Navy vessel. Benea (talk) 04:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

HMS Enterprize (1775)
According to the current list, “HMS Enterprize (1775) was a 10-gun tender captured by the Americans in 1775.” which fits the mention at the Royal Navy's Enterprise history list. However, the article USS Enterprise (1775) says the ship was named HMS George before capture, and renamed Enterprise by the Americans. (with the talk page citing Early American Ships for the HMS George name.

So does the Royal Navy itself have the original HMS name wrong, or did Early American Ships by John Fitzhugh Millar get it wrong?

I'm also pointing this out on Talk:USS Enterprise (1775) to seek more input. ―MJBurrage(T•C) 00:33, 14 July 2019 (UTC)