Enterprise

Enterprise is what Col Jack O'Neill wanted to name the Prometheus, obviouslly as a parody/tribute to the Star Trek Starship. The Name is also a very popular name with many naval and fictional tradtions.

HMS Enterprise

1. The first ship of the British Navy named Enterprise was the French frigate L'Entreprise of 24 guns, captured from the French in 1705. After capture she served as a sixth-rate in the British Navy.

2. The second Enterprize was a fifth-rate of 40 guns launched in 1709.

3. The third Enterprize, 8, was a barca longa captured from Spain in 1743 in the Mediterranean and rated as a sloop. She was employed as a despatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca.

4. The fourth Enterprize was Norwich of 50 guns, rebuilt and reduced to a fifth-rate of 44 guns in 1744 and in service until 1764.

5. The fifth Enterprize, 28, the lead ship of a class of 27 sixth-rate frigates, was launched in 1774 and served until 1784, then as a receiving ship thereafter.

6. The sixth Enterprise was a merchant vessel purchased in 1848 for Arctic exploration.

7. The seventh Enterprise was a sloop of war launched in 1864 and sold in 1884. An uncommissioned tugboat named Enterprise was in service at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1899 to 1919 when she was renamed Emprise. (She continued to serve until 1947.)

8. The eighth Enterprise was an Emerald-class light cruiser, launched in 1919 and in service during World War II.

9. The ninth Enterprise (A71) was an Inshore Survey ship in service from 1959 to 1985.

10. The tenth Enterprise (H88) is a multi-role Survey Vessel (Hydrographic/Oceanographic) launched in 2002 and commissioned in 2003. Note there are also a few British ships named enterprise that either did not get commisioned or were not offically on the roster

USS Enterprise

1. The first American Enterprise was originally the uncomissioned British sloop George, captured by American forces in the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Rechristened Enterprise, she served as a sloop-of-war during the American Revolution.

2. The second Enterprise, a schooner, was commanded by Captain Joseph Campbell, Enterprise operated principally in Chesapeake Bay. She convoyed transports, carried out reconnaissance, and guarded the shores against foraging raids by the British. Only meager records of her service have been found; they indicate that she was apparently returned to the Maryland Council of Safety before the end of February 1777.

3. The third Enterprise, a schooner, was built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799.

4. The fourth Enterprise was also a schooner, and commissioned in 1831.

5. The fifth Enterprise was a screw sloop commissioned 1877.

6. The sixth Enterprise, a motorboat, served in a noncommissioned status in the Second Naval District during World War I.

7. The seventh Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most-decorated U.S. Navy vessel of World War II.

8. The eighth Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier, launched in 1960 and still on active service as of 2005.

Enterprise - OV-101

The United States first obital space craft. Was used as a testing platform for new space technologies. Currently resides National Air and Space Museum, at Washington Dulles International Airport in Washington DC.

Starship Enterprise

NX-01 - Enterprise Class under the command of Captain Johnathan Archer. First Warp 5 Starship. NCC-1701 - Constitution Class under the Command of Captain James T. Kirk NCC-1701-A - Contitution Refit under the command of Captains Spock and Kirk NCC-1701-B - Excelsior Class under the command of Captain John Harriman NCC-1701-C - Ambassador Class under the command of Captian Rachel Garrett NCC-1701-D - Galaxy Class under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard NCC-1701-E - Soverign Class under the command of Captian Jean-Luc Picard NCC-1701-J - Unknown Class. Seen in a possible future of the 26th Century