List of ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise
Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named Enterprise with a ninth announced:

List of ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise

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Table Section Text: Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named Enterprise with a ninth announced:

Name	Class	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate

USS Enterprise (1775)	70-ton sloop	10 May 1775	7 July 1777	Burned to prevent capture, 7 July 1777.

Enterprise (1776)	25-ton schooner	June 1776	February 1777	Returned to the Maryland Council of Safety in 1777. Would not have used USS prefix.

USS Enterprise (1799)	135-ton schooner/​brig	17 December 1799 April 1811	June 1809 8 July 1823	Fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitanian ship Tripoli. Broken up after being stranded on Little Curacao Island in the West Indies.

USS Enterprise (1831)	197-ton schooner	15 December 1831 29 November 1839	12 July 1839 24 June 1844	Sold, 28 October 1844.

USS Enterprise (1874)	615-ton barque screw sloop	16 March 1877 12 January 1882 4 October 1887 8 July 1890	9 May 1880 21 March 1886 20 May 1890 1 October 1909	Lent to Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 17 October 1892 – 4 May 1909. Sold, 1 October 1909.

USS Enterprise (SP-790)	66-foot motor patrol boat	6 December 1917	2 August 1919	Transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries on 2 August 1919.

USS Enterprise (CV-6)	Yorktown-class aircraft carrier	12 May 1938	17 February 1947	Served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, the most awarded and decorated ship of that war. Scrapped, 1 July 1958 – May 1960.

USS Enterprise (CVN-65)	Enterprise-class aircraft carrier	25 November 1961	3 February 2017	World's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. As of 2012, the U.S.

USS Enterprise (CVN-80)	Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier	2028	Announced by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name.

final_sentence: USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name.