HMS Enterprise (1864)

HM Gunboat Comet (left) and HMS Enterprise (right)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Enterprise
Ordered	1861
Builder	Deptford Dockyard, Deptford, England
Cost	£62,464
Laid down	5 May 1862
Launched	9 February 1864
Completed	3 June 1864
Commissioned	5 May 1864
Fate	Sold 1885
General characteristics [1]
Type	Ironclad sloop
Displacement	1,350 long tons (1,370 t)
Tons burthen	994 bm
Length	180 ft (54.9 m) pp 152 ft 11+1⁄2 in (46.6 m) (keel)
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught	15 ft 8 in (4.8 m)
Installed power	160 nhp 692 ihp (516 kW)
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
Speed	9.9 knots (18.3 km/h; 11.4 mph)
Complement	130
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	Belt: 4.5 in (114 mm) Bulkheads: 4.5 in (114 mm)

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.