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For other references see USS Enterprise.HMS Enterprise may refer to:

HMS ''Enterprise'' (1705), the first ship of the British Navy named Enterprise was the French frigate ''L'Entreprise'' of 24 guns, captured from the French in 1705. After capture she served as a sixth-rate in the British Navy.

HMS ''Enterprize'' (1709), the second ship to bear this name, was a fifth-rate of 40 guns launched in 1709.

HMS ''Enterprize'' (1743), the third ship to bear this name, was a barca longa captured from Spain in 1743 in the Mediterranean and rated as a sloop. She was employed as a despatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca.

HMS ''Enterprize'' (1718), the fourth ship to bear this name, was originally the HMS ''Norwich'' of 50 guns, rebuilt and reduced to a fifth-rate of 44 guns in 1744 and in service until 1764.

HMS ''Enterprize'' (1774), the fifth ship to bear this name, was the lead ship of a class of 27 sixth-rate frigates, was launched in 1774 and served until 1784, then as a receiving ship thereafter.

HMS ''Enterprise'' (1848), the sixth ship to bear this name, was a merchant vessel purchased in 1848 for Arctic exploration.

HMS ''Enterprise'' (1864), the seventh ship to bear this name, was a sloop of war launched in 1864 and sold in 1884.

HMS ''Enterprise'' (D52), the eighth ship to bear this name, was an ''Emerald''-class light cruiser, launched in 1919 and in service during World War II.

HMS ''Enterprise'' (A71), the ninth ship to bear this name, was an Inshore Survey ship in service from 1959 to 1985.

HMS ''Enterprise'' (H88), the tenth ship to bear this name is a multi-role Survey Vessel (Hydrographic/Oceanographic) launched in 2002 and commissioned in 2003.

Enterprise, was a British East India Company's armed paddle steamer served alongside the Fleet in the First China War from 1839 to 1840 and the Second Burmese War in 1852.

Enterprise, was an uncommissioned tugboat was in service at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1899 to 1919 when she was renamed Emprise. (She continued to serve until 1947.)

Enterprise, was an uncommissioned auxiliary patrol anti-submarine net drifter with Harwich Local Forces from 1914 to 1918.

Enterprise II, was an uncommissioned drifter, originally based at Larne but transferred to Italian waters in November 1915. In March 1916 she struck a naval mine off Brindisi and sank with eight casualties.