uss enterprise (1775)

On this mission, the Enterprise was to serve as Rear Admiral Raymond A. Sprance’s flagship. Her first commander thought that she was too lightly built and that her quarters, in particular, should be bulletproofed.

On May 18, 1775, Col. Benedict Arnold captured the ship, outfitted her with guns and thereafter defended American supply routes in New England from British attacks. Enterprise I (1775-1777) The first Enterprise was originally a British ship named George. The grandfather of all Enterprise s (1775) One of the first ships to start the whole Enterprise trend started out as a British Navy ship named George back in 1775. The first USS Enterprise was originally a 70-ton British supply sloop. Six ships of the United States Navy have been named Enterprise with a seventh announced: Name

They armed the ship with twelve 4-pounder guns and 10 swivel guns. She wrecked i… The ship was manned by 50 officers and enlisted men. Photo courtesy of USS Enterprise CVN 65’s official website. On the 30 th of May, the Yorktown (hastily repaired) 3 cruisers, and 6 destroyers also left Pearl Harbor to join the Enterprise and the Hornet. Enterprise saw action in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean again, capturing numerous prizes. USS Enterprise (1775) Sloop-of-war: 18 May 1775 7 July 1777 Burned to prevent capture Enterprise (1776) Schooner: 20 December 1776 February 1777 Returned to Maryland Council of Safety: United States Navy Edit.

ENTERPRISE I (1775-77) The first Enterprise originally belonged to the British and was named George. She cruised on Lake Champlain and supplied English posts in Canada. In May 1775, a small American force under Colonel Benedict Arnold sailed up the Richelieu River on the recently captured Liberty. The Enterprise was accompanied by the Hornet, six cruisers, and ten destroyers. The first Enterprise originally belonged to the British and was named George.

Colonel Benedict Arnold (who later became an infamous traitor) and 35 men captured it from a shipyard in Quebec, Canada on the 18th of May 1775. Enterprise was overhauled and rebuilt several times, effectively changing from a twelve-gun schooner to a fourteen-gun topsail schooner and eventually to a brig. The third US ship to be named Enterprise was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799. Schooner ENTERPRISE was a United State's ship that involved in multiple campains and combats during the Quasi war with France and the war with Tripoli. Enterprise was originally a British sloop named George, built at St. Johns (now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) in Quebec, Canada. Though George mostly minded its own business and spent its days delivering supplies across Lake Champlain, deep down it knew it was meant for something more.