| Class | J-class[1] |
|---|---|
| Sail no | 4 |
| Designer(s) | Starling Burgess[2] |
| Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company[2] |
| Launched | April 14, 1930[3] |
| Owner(s) | Winthrop Aldrich syndicate[4] |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1935[5] |
| Racing career | |
| Skippers | Harold Vanderbilt[2] |
| Notable victories | 1930 America's Cup[6] |
| America's Cup | 1930 America's Cup |
| Specifications | |
| Displacement | 128 long tons[7] (130 metric tonnes) |
| Length | 120 ft 9 in (36.80 m) overall;[7] 80 ft (24 m) at waterline[7] |
| Beam | 22 ft 1 in[7] (6.73 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 6 in[7] (4.42 m) |
| Sail area | 7,583 sq.ft[7] (704.5 m2) |
Enterprise was a 1930 yacht of the J Class[1] and successful defender of the 1930 America's Cup[6] for the New York Yacht Club.[4] It was ordered by a syndicate headed by Vice-Commodore Winthrop Aldrich,[4] designed by Starling Burgess,[2] and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.[2]
She was named Enterprise in honor of the six commissioned warships of the United States Navy to have borne the name up to that time[8] (see List of ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise for details), but in particular, the third of these ships.[8] This had been a 12-gun schooner built in 1799 which saw action in the Quasi-War with France and in the First Barbary War against Tripolitania. Refitted as a brig in 1811, she fought in the War of 1812 where she captured the British brig HMS Boxer. For all these exploits, she had earned the nickname "Lucky Enterprise". Rear-Commodore Junius Morgan presented Aldrich with a model of this famous Enterprise, and the yacht sailed with this model prominently displayed in the captain's cabin.[9]