HMS Enterprize (1743)

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

HMS Enterprize, also known as HMS Enterprise, was an 8-gun sloop of the Royal Navy.

History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Enterprise
Acquired	Captured from the Spanish in 1743
Commissioned	1743
Fate	Sold in 1748
General characteristics
Class and type	Ex-Barca-longa Re-rated as a sloop
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	sloop
Complement	60
Armament	8 guns

Enterprize was a barca-longa captured from the Spanish in 1743 and re-rated as a sloop. She spent her entire career in the Mediterranean as a despatch vessel and tender, being commissioned in 1743 under Lieutenant Thomas Herring. She was present at the Battle of Toulon in 1744 and was then paid off in 1745.

She was recommissioned under Lieutenant William Cooper in August 1746, spending a further two years in service with the Navy until being put up for sale in at Port Mahon, Menorca in the summer of 1748. There was already an HMS Enterprize in service during her time with the Navy, a 40-gun fifth rate, which was sold off the year after her smaller counterpart, in 1749.

References

• History of ships named HMS Enterprise