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Photo # NH 63150: USS Enterprise anchored off New York City during the early 1890s

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Enterprise (1877-1909)

USS Enterprise, a 1375-ton (displacement) steam sloop of war built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, was commissioned in mid-March 1877. She performed surveying duties at the mouth of the Mississippi River and in South American rivers during the next year and a half. Late in 1878 Enterprise began a tour in European waters. When this ended in the spring of 1880 she was laid up at the Washington Navy Yard. After returning to active service early in 1883, the ship operated along the U.S. East Coast for nearly a year, then began a world-wide hydrographic cruise that lasted until March 1886. Her next deployment, from January 1888 to March 1890, took Enterprise to Europe, the Mediterranean and along Africa's Atlantic coast.

Enterprise was employed in the Caribbean and western Atlantic during much of 1890 and 1891, then spent a year on training duty at the U.S. Naval Academy. In October 1892 she became a martime schoolship for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, an assignment that lasted until May 1909. USS Enterprise was sold in October 1909 and subsequently broken up.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS Enterprise (1877-1909).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Miscellaneous and On Board Views;
  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Views by E.H. Hart, 1890 (Part I: Group Photos of Officers & Crew);
  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Views by E.H. Hart, 1890 (Part II: Crew Members with Weapons);
  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Views by E.H. Hart, 1890 (Part III: Miscellaneous Activities).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 54397

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken while the ship was at anchor, circa the 1880s.
    Published in "The Steam Navy of the United States", by Frank M. Bennett, page 645. As an Assistant Engineer, Bennett served in this ship during her 1887-1890 commission.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54398

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    At the New York Navy Yard, circa spring 1890, when she was commanded by Commander Bowman H. McCalla. The receiving ship Vermont is in the background.
    Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York City.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63150

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    Anchored off New York City during the early 1890s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54396

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    At anchor, probably during the 1890s or early 1900s, while she was serving as Massachusetts nautical training ship.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54219

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    Photographed by Paul R. Smith during her 1905 foreign cruise. She was then serving as Massachusetts Nautical training ship, at Boston.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 64271

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909)

    Line engraving, printed by the American Bank Note Company, of Boston, depicting the ship during the period 1892-1909, when she was employed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a nautical training ship.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 74563

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909), at left,
    and
    USS Ranger (1876-1940)

    Drawing by Fred S. Cozzens, published in "Our Navy -- Its Growth and Achievements", 1897.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93866

    USS Enterprise
    (1877-1909) --probable identification--

    Being prepared for burning to recover the metal in her hull. Enterprise was burned near Boston, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1910.

    Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1982.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     


    The following photograph shows USS Enterprise in the left middle distance:

    Photo #: NH 46885

    U.S., British and French warships at Villefranche, France, 1879.


    Photographed during 1-16 October 1879.
    Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 46885 (complete caption).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 163KB; 1200 x 705 pixels

     


    The following photographs MAY show USS Enterprise:

    Photo #: NH 44798

    Adams class steam sloop


    In port, probably in the vicinity of New York City, circa the 1880s.
    Photographed by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York.
    Ships of this class included USS Adams (1876-1920), USS Enterprise (1877-1909), USS Essex (1876-1930), USS Alliance (1877-1911) and USS Nipsic (1879-1913).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 625 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44799

    Adams class steam sloop


    At anchor in what appears to be a Far Eastern port, circa the later 1870s or the 1880s.
    Ships of this class included USS Adams (1876-1920), USS Enterprise (1877-1909), USS Essex (1876-1930), USS Alliance (1877-1911) and USS Nipsic (1879-1913).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 530 pixels

    Note:
    The ship in this photo was originally identified, erroniously, as USS Ossipee (1862-1891).

     

    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Miscellaneous and On Board Views;
  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Views by E.H. Hart, 1890 (Part I: Group Photos of Officers & Crew);
  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Views by E.H. Hart, 1890 (Part II: Crew Members with Weapons);
  • USS Enterprise (1877-1909) -- Views by E.H. Hart, 1890 (Part III: Miscellaneous Activities).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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