HMS Enterprise (1864)

HMCB Comet and HMS Enterprise HMCB Comet (left) and HMS Enterprise (right)
Career
Builder:	Royal Dockyard, Deptford, England
Cost:	£62,464
Laid down:	5 May 1862
Launched:	9 February 1864
Commissioned:	3 June 1864
Decommissioned:	1871
Fate:	Sold 23 February 1884 and scrapped 1886
General characteristics
Displacement:	1350 tons full load
Length:	180 ft (55 m) pp
Beam:	36 ft (11 m)
Draught:	13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Propulsion:	Ravenhill horizontal steam piston engine, 2 × 45 in (1143 mm) cylinders with an 18 in (457 mm) stroke producing 160 horsepower (119 kW) at 90 rpm on one shaft
Sail plan:	Barque-rigged, 18,250 ft² (1,695 m²)
Speed:	9.9 knots (18 km/h)
Complement:	130
Armament:	2 × 100-pounder (45 kg) Somerset cannons 2 × 110-pounder (50 kg) BL, replaced in 1868 by 4 × 7 in (178 mm) ML rifled guns
Armour:	Iron plate, 4.5 in (114 mm) thick, from below the load line to the upper decks

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Enterprise.

The seventh HMS Enterprise of the Royal Navy was a sloop of war launched in 1864 at Deptford Dockyard. Originally laid down as a wooden screw sloop of the Camelion class, she was redesigned by Edward Reed and completed as an ironclad with her armament mounted in a central tower, making her one of the first vessels of composite construction.

She was laid down on 5 May 1862, at the Royal Dockyards, Deptford, England, launched 9 February 1864, and completed 3 June 1864. In 1868 her armament was replaced with four 7 in Muzzle Loaders.

She served with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1871 when she was placed in reserve; she was assigned to harbour service at Chatham in 1875. On 23 February 1884, she was sold, and in November 1886 was broken up.

References

• Chesnau, Roger; Eugene M. Kolesnik (1979). Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5. 
• "Selected Extracts from "Famous Ships of the British Navy"". http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Famous_Ships/Appendix.html#Enterprise. Retrieved 2008-01-20.