[8] In support of this high availability, all accommodation and recreational facilities are designed for an unusual (in a warship) degree of comfort.

[7] Enterprise sailed in September 2005 to conduct survey operations in the Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin.

[11] Enterprise was dispatched to Libya in August 2014 to evacuate British citizens and diplomatic staff due to the increasing violence in the country.

[12] In June 2015, Enterprise replaced HMS Bulwark in the mission to rescue migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.

Among the migrants rescued by HMS Enterprise was Salman Abedi, the Libyan national who later went on to murder 22 people, including 7 children, at the Manchester Arena terrorist bombing on 22 May 2017.

[16][15] On 9 January 2017, it was announced Enterprise had deployed to the South Atlantic to perform patrol tasks normally carried out by the Falkland Islands patrol vessel, HMS Clyde, while Clyde underwent three months of maintenance in South Africa.

[17] Enterprise returned to Devonport on 18 April 2017 having steamed 150,000 miles (240,000 km) and visited 20 countries over a period of nearly three years.

[3] Enterprise is affiliated with 'D' (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron Royal Wessex Yeomanry[citation needed] and the town of Tiverton, Devon, which includes the freedom of the city with the ship's company able to march through the town with flags flying whilst bearing arms.