HMS Enterprise (1705)

HMS Enterprise (sometimes spelled Enterprize) was a 24-gun sixth-rate (named Enterprise[1] or L'Entreprenante[2]) of the French Navy captured by HMS Triton (also spelt as Tryton[3]) on 7 May 1705.

[4] She was registered as a Royal Navy ship on 1 June 1705 and commissioned shortly afterwards.

[6] She was captured on 2 May and registered as a Royal Naval vessel on 1 June 1705.

Her armament was twenty 6-pounders on the upper deck and four 4-pounders on the quarterdeck, all on wooden trucks.

[8][9] She was wrecked off Thornton, Lancashire, (near Blackpool) with the loss of all hands on 12 October 1707.