HMS Enterprise (1848)

HMS Enterprise (left) and HMS Investigator (right)
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Enterprise
Builder: Money Wigram and Sons, Blackwall[1]
Cost: £24,545[1]
Launched: 5 April 1848
Acquired: Purchased February 1848 on stocks[1]
Fate:
  • Coal depot 1860
  • Lent to the Board of Trade
  • Sold 15 September 1903[1]
General characteristics
Class & type: Arctic Discovery Ship
Tonnage: 471 tons (Builder's Measure)
Length: 125.6 ft (38.3 m)[1]
Beam: 28.8 ft (8.8 m)[1]
Depth of hold: 20 ft (6.1 m)[1]
Sail plan: Barque-rigged
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Enterprise.

HMS Enterprise was an Arctic discovery ship laid down as a merchant vessel and purchased in 1848 before launch to search for Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. She made two Arctic voyages before becoming a coal depot, and was finally sold in 1903. She was the tenth Enterprise (or Enterprize) to serve in the Royal Navy.

Construction

She was laid down as a merchant vessel at the Blackwall yard of Money Wigram and Sons, but purchased by the Admiralty in February 1848 and fitted for Arctic exploration. She was launched on 5 April 1848.

Career

Enterprise made two voyages to the Arctic, the first via the Atlantic in 1848-1849 under James Clark Ross, then in 1850-1854 via the Pacific and the Bering Strait in an expedition led by Richard Collinson.[2]

From 1860 she was lent to the Commissioners of Northern Lights for use as a coal hulk at Oban, and from 1889 she was lent to the Board of Trade. She was sold in 1903.

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
  2. "HMS Enterprise at William Loney website". Retrieved 2008-11-29.
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