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HMS Enterprise is a survey vessel, manned by experts in examining and mapping the seafloor. She also acts as a floating base for mine countermeasures activities.
HMS Enterprise (H88) is currently on deployment
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HMS Enterprise is an adaptable vessel, with a talented, multi-tasking crew. Though her Ship’s Company is small at just 50, their talents are abundant. Skills include:
Forging stronger relationships with our allies in the Asia Pacific region.
Mapping the ocean floor and providing the latest data to the UK Hydrographic Office.
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HMS Enterprise is an Echo-class multi-role survey vessel - hydrographic oceanographic (SVHO). Multi-talented and adaptable, she’s equally at home mapping and surveying the ocean floor as she is acting as a floating base for our minehunters.
Over the past five years, she’s been involved in a diverse span of activities, from detecting mines in the Arabian Gulf to saving lives and disrupting the work of human traffickers as part of a European taskgroup Operation Sophia.
She has surveyed hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, filled in as the Falkland Island’s Patrol Vessel, and most recently acted as the flagship to Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group 2.
The first was a prize – the French 6th Rate 24-gun L’Enterprise – taken by the 50-gun HMS Triton in May 1705.
A two-decked 44-gun 5th Rate, launched on 24 April 1709 - she was lost in a doomed expedition against the French in Canada in 1711.
The next Enterprise never came to fruition - she was renamed Liverpool in 1741. Three years later, the fourth launched, serving in the Caribbean.
Enterprise number five was captured by the Americans on the Richelieu River. Number six was launched 1774 - she served as a convoy escort.
Launched in 1778, converted to a floating battery in 1804, before taking on convoy escort duties in 1806.
Number eight was a wooden paddle gun vessel, while number nine launched 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin’s lost Arctic expedition.
A 670-ton wooden screw sloop was laid down then cancelled in July 1862. Meanwhile, a ship originally named the Circassian became number eleven in 1864.
Completed 1926, the twelfth served in the East Indies until 1937, then was recommissioned on the outbreak of war as part in the bombardment force at Normandy.
Enterprise was launched on 30 September 1958, surveying the shallows, sandbanks and coastline of Eastern England and the English Channel. She became known as the Starship.
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