HMS Enterprise (1864)

The seventh HMS Enterprise of the Royal Navy was an armoured sloop 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 a central battery ironclad. The ship spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before returning to England in 1871 where she was paid off. Enterprise was sold for scrap in 1885.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Enterprise.
HM Gunboat Comet (left) and HMS Enterprise (right)
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Enterprise
Ordered1861
BuilderDeptford Dockyard, Deptford, England
Cost£62,464
Laid down5 May 1862
Launched9 February 1864
Completed3 June 1864
Commissioned5 May 1864
FateSold 1885
General characteristics
TypeIronclad sloop
Displacement1,350 long tons (1,370 t)
Tons burthen994 bm
Length
  • 180 ft (54.9 m) pp
  • 152 ft 11+1⁄2 in (46.6 m) (keel)
Beam36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught15 ft 8 in (4.8 m)
Installed power
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder direct-acting horizontal single-expansion steam engine
  • 2 × tubular boilers
  • 1 × shaft
Sail plan
  • Barque-rigged;
  • 18,250 sq ft (1,695.5 m2) sail area
Speed9.9 knots (18.3 km/h; 11.4 mph)
Complement130
Armament
  • As built:
  • 2 × 100-pounder (234 mm) Somerset cannons
  • 2 × 7-inch (178 mm) Armstrong breech-loaders
  • From 1868 :
  • 4 × 7-inch (178 mm) 6½ ton rifled muzzle-loading guns
Armour
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