LT's Star Trek Webase

  Enterprise is defined by the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (1963) as, "Boldness, energy, and invention in practical affairs". Ships that have beared the name "Enterprise", real or fiction, have been inspirational to many throughout the United States and the world. Click the links below to read about ships that have beared this famous name.

  Ships of the sea that have been called "Enterprise" date back to before the year 1705, when Britain captured a French vessel called L'Enterprise. Seventy years later...