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Enterprise may refer to:
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise while another was planned:
Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triton or HMS Tryton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters:
The Royal Navy has used the name Comet no fewer than 18 times:
Sixteen different ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Greyhound, after the greyhound, a breed of dog notable for its speed.
Sixteen vessels and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Phoenix, after the legendary phoenix bird.
Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named Saltash:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Alderney, named after the Island of Alderney.
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Success, whilst another was planned:
HMS Hampshire was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Ipswich by John Barnard to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment dimensions at Ipswich, and launched on 13 November 1741.
HMS Looe was a 44-gun fifth rate warship of the Royal Navy. She grounded on Looe Key off the coast of Florida on 5 February 1744, during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hind or HMS Hynd:
HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:
Numerous ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Portsmouth, after the English port city and home of a naval base.
HMS Fox was a 20-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was constructed at Rotherhithe by John Buxton senior, and launched in 1740. Fox was part of the 1733 Establishment built in response to the upcoming War of the Austrian Succession and spent the majority of her career patrolling for privateers and smaller hostile craft, and protecting convoys. She was active during the Jacobite rising of 1745, contributing troops at the Battle of Prestonpans and protecting the advancing army and supplies of John Cope, before succumbing to a storm off Dunbar on 14 November 1745.
Sir Jacob Ackworth or Acworth (1668–1749) was an English shipwright and ship designer employed by the Royal Navy. As a designer he adopted Newtonian theories to create lighter and faster ships but this approach marginalised him with the very traditional dockyards and he spent his final years on the Navy Board as an advisor.
John Barnard (1705–1784) was an 18th century English shipbuilder serving the Royal Navy.
Joseph Allin was an 18th-century shipbuilder to the Royal Navy. His works merge with those of his namesake son who was also a Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard and later Surveyor to the Navy at which point he became Sir Joseph Allin.
References
- 1 2 Rankin, Stuart (July 2004). Shipyards, Granaries and Wharves, Maritime Rotherhithe, History Walk B. London: Southwark Council. ISBN 0-905849-37-X. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.
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