HMS Enterprise (A71)

{{Other ships|HMS Enterprise}}

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{{Infobox ship begin}} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:HMS Enterprise at Chatham.jpg |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag=File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg |Ship name=HMS Enterprise |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder= M.W. Blackmore & Sons, Bideford |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= 1959 |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate= scrapped, 2023 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass|Echo|survey ship

|1957}} |Ship displacement=*{{Convert|120|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard {{Convert|160|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full |Ship length=*{{Convert|100|ft|m|abbr=on}} p/p {{Convert|106|ft|m|abbr=on}} o/a |Ship beam= {{Convert|22|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= {{Convert|6|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion=Paxman diesel engines, {{Convert|1400|bhp|0|abbr=on}}, 2 shafts, 15 tons diesel fuel |Ship speed= {{Convert|14|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= {{Convert|4500|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{Convert|12|kn|abbr=on}} |Ship complement=18 |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=None |Ship armor= |Ship notes= }}

The ninth HMS Enterprise (A 71) of the Royal Navy was an {{sclass|Echo|survey ship|0||1957}} inshore survey ship built by M.W. Blackmore & Sons of Bideford and commissioned in 1959.{{cite book |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=John |title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1981-82 |date=1981 |publisher=Jane's |location=London |isbn=0-7106-0728-8 |page=579 |edition=85}}

With her sister ships {{HMS|Echo|A70|6}} and {{HMS|Egeria|A72|6}}, Enterprise{{'}}s career was spent in hydrographic surveys of the seas, sandbanks, and coastlines of the East Coast and Eastern English Channel.{{cite news |title=Ships Warned About Goodwin Shoal |work=The Times|issue=55646 |date=11 March 1963 |page=10|issn=0140-0460}} She was well known around the harbours of Eastern England, and showed the flag on many official visits to Belgian, Dutch, and German ports on the North Sea coast, and as far up the Rhine as Cologne. After the American television series Star Trek became popular, Enterprise inevitably became known throughout the Navy as "the Starship." She was put up for disposal by sale in 1985. In 2023 she was scrapped in killkeel harbour after sinking in shallow water