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Enterprise, 1864
Type: Central battery ironclad sloop ; Armament 4 x 7 " x. 62 ton
Laid down : Deptford 1 May 1861 (trimming timbers) ;
Launched : 9 Feb 1864 ;
Disposal date or year : 1886
BM: 993 tons ; Displacement: 1350 tons
Propulsion: Screw and sail
Machinery notes: 692 hpi 160 hp ; Speed ; 9.9 knots ;
Notes:
Some brief notes on the Enterprise.
Laid down as Circassian as a single-screw, wooden-hulled, rigged, armoured sloop of 993 tons' displacement, Maximum thickness of iron armour, 4� ". Hull of wood with the upper works of iron.
6 May 1864 Commissioned at Woolwich.
6 May to 31 Dec 1864 Home Station. Number of Cases of Disease and Injury.
6 July 1866 Trieste.
11/12 July 1866 Ancona.
20 July 1866 Trieste.
24 July 1866 Venice.
31 July 1866 Trieste until 26 August.
27 Aug 1866 to 9 Sept at sea.
9-11 Sep 1866 at Malta.
1870 Mediterranean
27 Jan 1871 at Malta.
9 Feb 1871, Malta, departed for Piraeus.
13 Feb 1871, arrived at Piraeus, to relieve the Pandora.
2 Apr 1871, for census, at the Pireus, Athens.
1879 Unappropriated Chatham.