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  USS Enterprise (CVN-65) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enterprise was intended to be the first of a class of six, but construction costs ballooned and the remaining vessels were never laid down resulting in her being the only ship of her class.
Enterprise remained on station conducting flight operations in the waters outside Manila Bay until the situation subsided, and then proceeded to her scheduled deployment to the Indian Ocean.
Enterprise was the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier and the rumors from her crew in the 80s was that they underestimated the power from the 2 reactors per screw giving her a higher speed than later carriers.
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 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) - Memory Alpha
The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was a Constitution class heavy cruiser launched in 2245, that became the most celebrated Federation Starfleet vessel of the 23rd Century.
In 2265, the Enterprise was assigned to a five-year mission of deep-space exploration, and her command passed to the youngest captain in the fleet, James T. Kirk.
Enterprise violated the Zone later that year for the purpose of espionage, and she was quickly surrounded by three battle cruisers.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)   (2050 words)

  
 Enterprise (CV-6)
Enterprise had just completed one such mission, delivering Marine Corps Fighter Squadron 211 to Wake Island on 2 December 1941, and was en route to Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Enterprise entered Noumea, New Caledonia, on 30 October for repairs, but a new Japanese thrust at the Solomons demanded her presence and she sailed on 11 November, repair crews from Vestal (AR-4) still on board, working vigorously.
Enterprise entered the New York Naval Shipyard on 18 January 1946 for inactivation, and was decommissioned on 17 February 1947.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/carriers/cv6.htm   (2388 words)

  
 frontline: the navy blues: History of the USS Enterprise | PBS
At the commissioning of the Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally, Jr., called it a worthy successor to the highly decorated seventh USS Enterprise of World War II.
Enterprise and other ships in the Second Fleet set up a "strict quarantine of all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba." The blockade was put into place on Oct. 24, and the first Soviet ship was stopped the next day.
In April 1988, Enterprise, on its 13 deployment, was assigned to escort duties of reflagged Kuwati oil tankers in the Persian Gulf while stationed in the North Arabian Sea.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/navy/enterprise/enterprise2.html   (930 words)

  
 USS Enterprise CV-6
Enterprise entered World War II on the morning of December 7, 1941, when her scout planes encountered the Japanese squadrons attacking Pearl Harbor.
Not until May 14, 1945, when a Kamikaze attack off Kyushu, Japan, left a gaping hole in her flight deck, was she forced to leave the war.
Enterprise changed the very course of a war she seemed to have been expressly created for.
www.cv6.org   (193 words)

  
 CVN 65 Enterprise Strike Group
Enterprise next sailed to the Mediterranean, raising Gibraltar on 26 June 1801, where she was to join other U.S. warships in writing a bright and enduring page in American naval history.
Refitted and renamed Intrepid, the ketch was given to Enterprise's command-ing officer, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr., for use in a daring expedition to burn frigate Philadelphia, captured by the Tripolitans and anchored in the harbor of Tripoli.
Enterprise continued to patrol the Barbary Coast until July 1804 when she joined the other ships of the squadron in general attacks on the city of Tripoli over a period of several weeks.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/batgru-65.htm   (4189 words)

  
 FSD : USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Galaxy-class
The fifth starship Enterprise was contructed at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards orbiting Mars and was completed in late 2363 launched on stardate 40759.5.
The Enterprise became the flagship of the Federation, serving to represent it in several dipolmatic and defensive situations.
In 2371, while at Veridian III the Enterprise was attack by a Klingon Bird of Prey that gained access to the shield frequency and was able to fire several disruptor charges that caused a warp core breach.
www.lcarscom.net /fsd/enterprise/1701d.html   (412 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
Enterprise was later deployed to assist in Operation Frequent Wind in 1975.
As of 2004, Enterprise is homeported at NS Norfolk, Virginia.
On 11 September 2001, Enterprise was just outside of the Persian Gulf and was the first carrier to take station off of Afghanistan and was among the first units to conduct strikes on the Taliban in Pakistan as part of Operation Infinite Justice, later renamed Operation Enduring Freedom.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)   (887 words)

  
 Iwo Jima: February 19 - March 12, 1945
Enterprise's TG 58.5, accompanied by TG's 58.4 and 58.1, parted ways with the remainder of the Task Force the afternoon of February 18, and headed for a refueling rendezvous southwest of Iwo Jima.
Enterprise, every available fighter was manned at 1700, but none were launched for forty-eight minutes, when she launched her first night CAP.
Enterprise's TG 58.5, began a high-speed run to the north, returning to the Japanese Home Islands, to strike at the airfields supplying the suicide planes harassing the forces at Iwo Jima.
www.cv6.org /1945/iwo   (1511 words)

  
 FSD : USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Constitution-class
The original starship Enterprise was launched in the year 2245 at the San Francisco Fleet Yards orbiting Earth.
It is known that during this refit the Enterprise crew compacity was boosted from 203 to 430 officers and crew.
In 1972, the name Enterprise was given to the first NASA space shuttle, thanks to thousands of letters the agency received from Trekkies across the country.
www.lcarscom.net /fsd/enterprise/1701.html   (482 words)

  
 U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Enterprise (CVN 65)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aircraft from Enterprise, USS Independence (CVA 62), USS Essex (CVA 9) and USS Randolph (CVA 15), and those from shore stations were in the air, patrolling their assigned sectors.
Enterprise, along with Midway, Coral Sea, Hancock, and USS Okinawa (LPH 3) deployed to waters off Vietnam on 19 April 1975 for possible evacuation contingencies as North Vietnam overran two-thirds of South Vietnam and pronounced the carriers' presence a brazen challenge and a violation of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords.
In April 1988, Enterprise was on its 13th deployment, assigned to escort reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Arabian Gulf while stationed in the North Arabian Sea.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv65-enterprise/cv65-enterprise.html   (3791 words)

  
 Battle of Midway Carrier: USS Enterprise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In later years the Enterprise was honored with the Presidential Unit Citation, a Navy Unit Commendation, and the Task Force 16 Citation.
USS Northampton (CA-26) is in the right distance, with SBDs orbiting overhead, awaiting the launch of the rest of the attack group.
USS Pensacola (CA-24) is in the right distance and a destroyer is in plane guard position at left.
library.nps.navy.mil /home/midway/enterprise.htm   (545 words)

  
 CVN-65 USS Enterprise
A bottle of champagne shattered on the bow of the awesome new warship, USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), breaking the silence of an anxious crowd at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Va. It was Saturday morning, Sept. 24, 1960, when Mrs.
ENTERPRISE made its maiden voyage under the command of Capt. Vincent P. DePoix, Jan. 12, 1962, conducting a three-month shakedown cruise.
ENTERPRISE and other ships in the Second Fleet set up a "strict quarantine of all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba." The blockade was put in place on Oct. 24, and the first Soviet ship was stopped the next day.
www.multied.com /Navy/CVN65Enterprise.html   (1431 words)

  
 Enterprise Completes First NATO Exercise of Summer Pulse '04
Enterprise is one of seven aircraft carriers involved in Summer Pulse 2004.
USS George Washington (CVN 73) was originally slated to participate in the exercise, but when Enterprise departed June 3rd for Summer Pulse 04, Big E had the opportunity to get involved.
Enterprise will continue to be heavily involved in multi-national exercises in the North Atlantic during Summer Pulse 04, with the Joint Maritime Course scheduled to take place June 21 through July 1, and other regional exercises slated for mid-July.
www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=13818   (787 words)

  
 CVN-65 Enterprise - Navy Ships
At the commissioning of ENTERPRISE on September 24, 1960, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was the mightiest warship to ever sail the seas.
Enterprise is the longest carrier in the Navy at 1,123 feet.
When first completed the island of the Enterprise had a very unique shaped structure consisting of a dome shaped top resting on a box, supporting SPS-32 and 33 radars, plus many ECM antennas, which were located on all four sides and top dome of the ship.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/cvn-65.htm   (524 words)

  
 Case Study - USS Enterprise
The solution currently operates on the USS Enterprise as it roams global sea-lanes.
The USS Enterprise application is part of the U.S. Department of Defense-wide AIT EUCOM test program.
Application: USS Enterprise uses batch data capture in the receiving and inventory functions of its spare parts and consumables aboard ship.
www.lowrycomputer.com /industries/government/ussenterprise.htm   (531 words)

  
 STARTREK.COM : Article
Launched in 2245, the original and illustrious starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 was built in the San Francisco Yards orbiting Earth.
During this mission, Enterprise encounted the Romulans for the first time since the Romulan-Earth conflict, engaged the robotic "Planet Killer" vessel, traveled back in time to 20th-Century Earth, and played host to Khan Noonien Singh, a product of late-20th Century genetic engineering who once fought in the Eugenics Wars.
This refit Enterprise was, first, commanded by Captain Williard Decker until the V'Ger incident forced a then-Admiral Kirk to assume command.
www.startrek.com /startrek/view/library/ships/TOS/article/70377.html   (326 words)

  
 U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Enterprise (CV 6)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On 8 April 1942 she departed to rendezvous with USS Hornet (CV 8) and sail westward to launch 16 Army B-25 bombers in a raid on Tokyo.
Though the forces were in contact to 7 June, by the end of the 4th the outcome had been decided and the tide of the war in the Pacific had been turned in the United States' favor.
Enterprise entered Noumea, New Caledonia, on 30 October 1942 for repairs, but a new Japanese thrust at the Solomons demanded her presence and she sailed on 11 November, repair crews from USS Vestal (AR-4) still on board, working vigorously.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv06-enterprise/cv06-enterprise.html   (2452 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Enterprise (1877-1909)
USS Enterprise, a 1375-ton (displacement) steam sloop of war built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, was commissioned in mid-March 1877.
Enterprise was employed in the Caribbean and western Atlantic during much of 1890 and 1891, then spent a year on training duty at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Enterprise was burned near Boston, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1910.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/entrp5.htm   (699 words)

  
 USS Enterprise Aircraft Strike Enemy in Iraq
ABOARD USS ENTERPRISE, At Sea (NNS) -- Strike fighter aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 312, flying from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) in the North Arabian Gulf, attacked enemy targets near Kirkuk, Iraq, Nov. 19 in support of Operation Iron Hammer.
Enterprise deployed with three Hornet squadrons, one of which is the “Checkerboards” of VMFA-312, based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C. “Personally, it’s a reminder of how proud I am to be a Checkerboard with CVW-1,” Smith said.
Enterprise is the Navy’s only aircraft carrier currently deployed to the 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=10755   (436 words)

  
 CNN.com - USS Enterprise arrives home - November 10, 2001
The USS Enterprise and the 5,000 sailors on board arrived at the U.S. naval base in Norfolk on Saturday morning.
The ship was relieved by the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which was originally supposed to deploy to the Mediterranean Sea.
The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis is scheduled to deploy on Monday from San Diego, California, to relieve the USS Carl Vinson.
archives.cnn.com /2001/US/11/10/ret.enterprise   (344 words)

  
 List of Related HomePages for USS Enterprise - CVN 65
Enterprise at Midway: Battle was joined on the morning of 4 June 1942 when four Japanese carriers, unaware of the presence of U.S. forces, launched attacks on Midway...
Marine Detachment (MARDET) USS Enterprise CVN-65: One of the first and oldest duties in the long and proud history of the U.S. Marine Corps has been sea duty.
USS ENTERPRISE MAR-DET: MARINES ATTATCHED TO THE MAR-DET USS ENTERPRISE
www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageListHomePages/1,13491,200181,00.html   (638 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Enterprise (CV-6)
USS Enterprise, a 19,800-ton Yorktown class aircraft carrier, was built at Newport News, Virginia.
In April 1939, Enterprise was ordered to the Pacific, where she was to play an unparalleled role in the great sea war that began with Japan's 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
In June 1942, Enterprise played a vital role in the Battle of Midway, in which her planes sank or helped sink three Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/cv6.htm   (1261 words)

  
 USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
The USS ENTERPRISE was the Navy's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier and from 1961 to 1972 she was the biggest warship in the world.
An F-14 ("NK 213") of VF-2 misses a landing on the USS ENTERPRISE and its wingtip strikes two other aircraft on the flight deck before it veers out of control and crashes into the South China Sea.
USS ENTERPRISE runs aground within sight of the port of San Francisco after eight months at sea.
navysite.de /cvn/cvn65.html   (761 words)

  
 USS Enterprise NCC-1701D
The USS Enterprise "D" was the flagship of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets.
Joined the Enterprise: In 2363 Picard was given the command of the USS Enterprise D, nine years after his last post.
Worf's adopted father was one of the USS Intrepid's rescue team that arrived at the Khitomer outpost.
pages.prodigy.net /thenadels/ncc1701d.htm   (1363 words)

  
 STARTREK.COM : Article
The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D was a Galaxy-class starship and the flagship of Starfleet.
The fifth starship to be named Enterprise, she was commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
The U.S.S. Enterprise-D was destroyed in 2371 after an attack by renegade Klingons breached her warp core.
www.startrek.com /startrek/view/library/ships/TNG/article/70381.html   (385 words)

  
 A History of Ships Named Enterprise
USS Enterprise was forced to jettison her armament in order to escape.
USS Enterprise might easily have been sunk had it not been for the anti-aircraft gunfire of the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57), which shot down a record 26 aircraft that day, a record which still stands.
Planes from the USS Enterprise, the USS Essex (CV-9), the USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Cabot (CVL-28), and USS Franklin (CV-13) sink the battleship Musashi.
starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca /?SNE.html   (6524 words)

  
 Laser Diagnostics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This was passed over the Enterprise for a duration of approximately 100 microseconds.
However one could argue that this test was a simulation of the flight of the Enterprise where the Mach number of the flow is analogous to the Warp speed of the vehicle.
We found that, with shields down, the Enterprise is very susceptible to the ever increasing amount of space junk.
www.physics.uq.edu.au /lp/lasdiag/enterp.shtml   (471 words)

  
 USS Enterprise (CV-6) - Wikimedia Commons
USS Enterprise under attack, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942
Japanese bomb explodes on the flight deck of USS Enterprise, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942
Enterprise during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
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