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

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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 =

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= Trains =

= Watercraft =

== United States Navy ships ==

(Chronological)

  • {{USS|Enterprise|1775|}}, a Continental Navy sloop captured from the British, burned to prevent recapture in 1777
  • {{USS|Enterprise|1799}}, a schooner that fired the first shots in the First Barbary War
  • {{USS|Enterprise|1831}}, a schooner, stationed primarily in South America to patrol and protect commerce
  • {{USS|Enterprise|1874}}, a steam-powered sloop-of-war used for surveying, patrolling, and training until 1909
  • {{USS|Enterprise|SP-790}}, a motorboat (1917–1919) used in World War I as a non-commissioned section patrol craft
  • {{USS|Enterprise|CV-6}} (1936), a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated U.S. Navy ship
  • {{USS|Enterprise|CVN-65}} (1961), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  • {{USS|Enterprise|CVN-80}} (2027), a planned Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier

== Royal Navy ships ==

(Chronological)

  • {{HMS|Enterprise|1705}} was a 24-gun sixth rate, previously the French frigate {{ship|French frigate|L'Entreprise||2}}, 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 {{sclass|Enterprise|frigate|0}} 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|1778|6}}. 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 {{sclass|Emerald|cruiser|0}} light cruiser launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
  • {{HMS|Enterprise|A71}} was an {{sclass|Echo|survey ship (1957)|0}} inshore survey ship launched in 1958 and sold in 1985.
  • {{HMS|Enterprise|H88}} is an {{sclass|Echo|survey ship (2002)|0}} multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.

== Other ships ==

  • {{ship||Enterprise|yacht}}, a J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
  • {{ship||Enterprise|1776}}, a schooner, previously a privateer, used by the Continental Navy in Chesapeake Bay until 1777
  • {{ship||Enterprise|1814}}, a steamboat operating during the Battle of New Orleans
  • {{ship||Enterprize|1829}}, an Australian topsail schooner used for the founding of Melbourne, Australia
  • {{ship||Enterprize|replica}}, a replica of the 1829 Enterprize
  • {{ship||Enterprise|slave ship}}, forced by weather into Bermuda in 1835, resulting in the liberation of most of the slaves on board
  • {{ship||Enterprise|1855}}, a Canadian 19th-century steamer on the Columbia and Fraser rivers
  • {{ship||Enterprise|1861}}, a sidewheeler, built in San Francisco, operated on the Fraser River system, from 1861 to her loss in 1885
  • {{ship||Enterprise|1862}}, a Canadian pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
  • PS Enterprise, an 1878 Australian paddle steamer on the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers
  • {{ship||Enterprise|sternwheeler 1863}}, an American steamboat that operated on the Willamette River in Oregon
  • Enterprise, a sailing ship caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
  • London Enterprise (1950), an oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters, scrapped {{circa|1974}}
  • London Enterprise (1983), a Panamax oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters
  • {{ship|SS|Flying Enterprise}} (1944–1952), an American cargo ship originally commissioned as the SS Cape Kumukaki (C1-B)
  • {{ship||Enterprise|1898 ship}}, see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed

== Ship classes ==

  • {{ship||Enterprise|dinghy}}, a class of sailboat
  • Discoverer Enterprise, the namesake of a class of deepwater drillships

Other uses

See also

{{disambiguation|geo|ship}}