USS Enterprise (1775)

History
United States
NameEnterprise
OperatorContinental Army
AcquiredCaptured 18 May 1775 (as George)
FateBurned to prevent capture, 7 July 1777
General characteristics
TypeSloop-of-war
Tonnage70
PropulsionSail
Sail planSloop
Complement50 officers and enlisted
Armament
Service record
Commanders: Col. Benedict Arnold
Operations:

USS Enterprise was a Continental Army sloop-of-war that served in Lake Champlain during the American Revolutionary War. She was the first of a long and prestigious line of ships of the United States or by the combatant forces of the U.S. Revolutionary War to bear the name Enterprise.