HMS Enterprise (1848)
The sixth
HMS Enterprise of the
Royal Navy was a new-built merchant vessel purchased by the
Admiralty in
1848 to be fitted and strengthened
for
Arctic exploration in search of Sir
John Franklin's lost
expedition.
Enterprise made two voyages to the Arctic, the first via
the Atlantic in
1848-
1849, then in
1850-
1854 via the
Pacific and the
Bering Strait.
From 1860 she was lent to the Commissioners of Northern Lights for use as a coal hulk at Oban, and from 1889 she was lent to the Board of Trade. She was sold in 1903.
General Characteristics
See HMS Enterprise for other Navy ships of this name.