Star Trek Movies

Compiled by David Wells

“Enterprise” - Boldness, energy, and invention in practical affairs (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 1963)

Organization: This guide is organized chronologically, by launch dates where available.

1705 - 1707 6th Rate Vessel. (UK)

Length: 110 feet
Beam: 28 feet
Draught: 15 feet
Compliment: 115
Armament of 24 guns
Displacement: 320 tons.
Previously French vessel L’Enterprise before her capture in May of 1705. Served in the Mediterranean under command of J. Paul. May 19, 1707, her new captain takes command, W. Davenport, and she saw action off of Leghorn, (Livorno) Italy. She wrecked on October 12, 1707 off of Thornton.

1709-1749 5th Rate Vessel. (UK)
“HMS Enterprize” (sic)

Length: 118 feet
Beam: 32 feet
Compliment: 190
Armament: 40 guns
Displacement: 531 tons
4 April 1709, built at Lock, Plymouth, England.
28 April 1709: Completed and launched on
20 February 1740: Renamed Liverpool, a hospital ship.
September 1745: decommissioned.
3 April 1749: sold off for 280 pounds.

1730-1764 sloop (UK)
Used in War of Austrian Succession and Seven Years War. Broken up in 1764.

1738 - Enterprize,
Small wooden English Private passenger vessel. The following is a German translation of an immigrant registration for German and Swiss immigrants leaving for America via England, bound for the Philadelphia ports to live in Pennsylvania:” December 6, 1738, Palatines imported in the snow Enterprize, Lynell Wood Master, from London, 120 passengers.”

1743-1748 Eight Gunned Sloop. (UK)
“HMS Enterprize” (sic)

Patrolled the Mediterranean under the command of T. Henning. 
11 February 1744: took part in the Battle of Toulon.
1748: Sold

1759 - ? Frigate. (France)
” L’Entreprise” (sic)

1774-1807 6th Rate Vessel (UK)
“HMS Enterprize” (sic)

Length: 120.5 feet
Beam: 33.5 feet.
Displacement: 594 tons
Armament: 28 guns
Compliment: 200
Built at Deptford England. Commissioned: April 1775, under the command of T. Rich.
August 1807: Retired at Deptford.

1775-1777 Sloop of War (USA)
The full entry for this ship from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line.

Displacement: 70 tons
Propulsion: Sloop rigged
Length: 62 feet
Compliment: 50
Armament: 12 4-pounders, 10 swivels
Formerly HMS George, a British supply ship. Captured from Great Britain

1776-1777 (USA)
Successful privateer, purchased 20 December 1776 by Continental Navy. The full entry for this ship from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line.

Displacement: 25 tons
Propulsion: Schooner rigged
Compliment: 60
Armament: 8 guns
Little information on this ship survives. Operated in Chesapeake Bay. Returned to Maryland Council of Safety February 1777.

1799-1823 Schooner (USA)
USS Enterprise captures Tripoli, 1 August 1801. US National Archives.

Known as “Lucky little Enterprise”. The full entry for this ship from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line. I have to believe that this is the ship they meant to portray in the seventh Star Trek movie, “Star Trek: Generations” For the record, in that movie, the ship was portrayed by the Lady Washington.

Displacement: 135 tons
Length: 84″ 7″
Beam: 22″ 6″
Draught: 10′
Propulsion: (1799-1811) Schooner rigged (2 masts), (1812-1823) bark rigged
Compliment: 70
Armament: Twelve 6 pounders
Built: 1799 by Henry Spencer, Baltimore MD
Late 1807: Returned to USA
1810-1811: out of commission, under repair at Washington Navy Yard
April 1811: Recommissioned

9 July 1823: Ran aground and broke up on Little Curacao island in the West Indies. No losses to the crew.

1831-1844 Schooner (USA)
The full entry for this ship from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line.

Displacement: 194 tons
Length: 88′
Beam: 23′ 6″
Draught: 10′
Propulsion: Schooner rigged
Compliment: 72
Armament: 2 9 pounders, 8 24 pounders
Builder: New York Navy Yard
Launched: 26 October 1831
Commissioned: 15 December 1831
No combat record. After two years of patrols near Brazil, (1832-1834) she sailed around the world from New York, by way of Brazil, Africa, India, the Far East, the East Indies, Honolulu HI, Mazatlan Mexico, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, and then to Philadelphia.
12 July 1839: decommissioned.
16 March 1840: Re-commissioned
24 June 1844: decommissioned,
28 October 1844: Sold.

1861 Balloon (USA)
During the American Civil War, there was a United States Balloon Corps, which used a balloon named Enterprise. Apparently, the Union Army made some use of these balloons until the Balloon Corps was disbanded in August 1863. I hope to investigate this further.

17 June 1861: Thaddeus Lowe demonstrates Enterprise at Columbia Armory, Washington DC. The balloon ascends to 500 feet, and transmits a telegraph to Abraham Lincoln.

1864-1886 Sloop of War (UK)
(variant of Research class)
Displacement: 1350 tons
Length: 180′
Beam: 36′
Draught 12.4′-15.1′
Propulsion: Barque rigged 18,250 sq. ft. sail area, plus Ravenhill horizontal steam piston engine, 2 45″ cylinders, 18″ stroke, 690 IHP at 90 RPM, (1 shaft) for 9.9 knots (95 tons coal)
Compliment: 130
Armament: 2 100 pounder “Somersets”, 2 110 pounder breach loaders
Builder: Royal Dockyards, Deptford England
Designer: Edward Reed
Keel Laid: 5 May 1862
Launched: 9 February 1864
Completed: 3 June 1864
Armor belt: iron plate, 4.5 inches thick, from below the load line to the upper decks.
Cost: 62,464 pounds
The first composite ironclad. (wooden construction with iron armor) While some have classified this ship as a “lightweight battleship”, I tend to think of her as a modified sloop-of-war. She was MUCH smaller than contemporary battleships.
23 February 1884: sold to Mesers, Castle and Sons.
November 1886: sold for scrap and dismantled.

1877-1909 Sloop of War (USA)
 USS Enterprise Sloop of War. US National Archives.

This ship’s record in some ways resembles that of NCC-1701. The full entry for this ship from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line.

Displacement: 1375 tons
Length: 185′
Beam: 35′
Draught: 14′ 3″
Propulsion: bark-rigged, plus steam piston engines
Compliment: 184
Armament: 1 11″ smoothbore, 4 9″, 1 60 pounder
Builder: Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine (John W. Griffith, contractor)
Launched: 13 June 1874
Commissioned: 16 March 1877
No combat record. After fitting out at Norfolk VA, surveyed the mouth of the Mississippi River. Returned to Norfolk April 1878. Left 27 May to survey Amazon and Madeira rivers. Returned to New York. Left for Europe December 1878. Visited many northern European and Mediterranean ports.
9 May 1880: Returned to Washington Navy Yard for repairs. Decommissioned.
12 January 1882: Recommissioned
21 March 1886: De-commissioned at New York.
4 October 1887: Re-commissioned
20 May 1890: De-commissioned at New York.
1 October 1909: sold

1914? - 1918? Motorboat No. 790 (USA)
The full entry for this ship from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line.

Length: 66′
Beam: 12′
Draught: 3′ 7″
Speed: 22 knots
Compliment: 8
Armament: 1 1-pounder
Served in non-commissioned status in the 2nd naval district.

1919 - 1946 Light Cruiser (UK)
(”E” class, sister ships: HMS Emerald, HMS Euphrates. The later was cancelled 26 Nov 1918)
Displacement: 7335 tons light, 9435 fully loaded
Length: 570′
Beam: 54′ 6″
Draught: 16′ 6″
Propulsion: 4 sets Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, Eight Yarrow Boilers @ 250psi. 80,000 SHP = 32 knots
Range: 1,350 nautical miles at 32 knots, 8,000 nautical miles at 15 knots. 1746 tons of oil.
Compliment: 572
Armament: seven 6″/L50, guns, five 4″ guns.
Twelve 21in torpedo tubes on triple mountings TRI.
(replaced in 1929 with four quadruple mounts QUI).
Searchlights, two 36in, two 24in.
Designer: John Brown and Company.
Builder: John Brown, Clydebank
Laid down: 28 June 1918.
Launched: 23 December 1919
Commissioned: 31 March 1926.
Built by John Brown, Clydebank, UK. Moved to Devonport Dockyard for completion. Introduced the “knuckle bow” to Royal Navy cruisers. Served in World War II, mainly deployed on the trade routes. Operated with the Far East fleet late in the war. A wartime proposal to convert her into an aircraft carrier was rejected. At some point, her two forward open-mount 6″ single guns were replaced by a 6″ twin turret.

The German Navy 1939-1945
History of the Vessel Enterprise
An Illustrated History of the Navies of World War II
Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War II
Navies of the Second World War British Cruisers
Cruisers of World War II
Note: Much of the historical information and associated references in this section were provided by John Warner.

1930-1934 Racing Yacht (USA)

Length: 120 feet, 9 inches (oa) 80 feet (wl)
Beam: 22 feet, 1 inch
Draft: 14 feet, 6 inches; with deep centerboard, 23 feet, 6 inches
Displacement: 128 tons
Propulsion: 7,583 square feet of sail, with three head sail riggings.
Builder: Herreshoff Manufacturing, Co., Bristol, Rhode Island.
August 1930: Qualified for the America’s Cup race off Mattapoisett, by defeating rival yachts Yankee, Whirlwind and Weetamoe.

September 1930: Under the command of Harold S. Vanderbilt, won the America’s Cup race off Newport, Rhode Island, defeating Shamrock V.

1935-1945 Training Airship L-5 (USA)

Length: 148 feet (45.1 m)
Diameter: 46 feet (14.0 m)
Gas Volume: 123,000 cubic feet (3,483 cu.m)
Propulsion: Two 145hp Warner R-500-2/6 Radial
Maximum speed: 60mph (96km/h)
Range: 500 miles (805 km)
Crew: 4
Useful lift: 1,461 lbs (662.7 kg)
Armament: None
Builder: Goodyear
Built: 1935
Goodyear’s first Enterprise was turned over to the Navy following the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor along with six other ships of the class to serve as training vessels for the Navy’s non-rigid airship program. The Navy redesignated the blimp L-5.

1936-1958 Aircraft Carrier CV-6 (USA)
(Yorktown class, sister ships: Yorktown, CV-5 and Hornet, CV-8)

Known as “The Big E”. Arguably the most successful warship in history, I feel certain that this is the ship for which NCC-1701 is named. The full entry for CV-6 from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line. Also check out the Enterprise (CV-6) Association web page.

Displacement: 19,800 tons Standard, 25,500 full load (original) 32,060 full load (later)
Length: 809′ 6″ (later 827′ 5″)
Beam: 83′ (later 95′ 5″) at waterline, 108′ 11″ (later 114′ 2″) flight deck
Draught: 21′ 8″ (std) 27′ 11″ (full)
Propulsion: 9 geared steam turbines, 9 Babcock & Wilcox boilers (400 PSI) 120,000 SHP (4 shafts) = 32.5 knots
Compliment: 1889 (peace) 2919 (war)
Armament: 8 5″/L38 guns, 16 1.1″ guns, (original) 8 5″/L38 guns, 44 40mm guns, 60 20mm guns (later)
Aircraft: 81-90 (1945)
Builder: Newport News SBDD, Newport News, VA
Laid Down: 16 July 1934
Launched: 3 October 1936
Commissioned: 12 May 1938
15 June 1938: first aircraft operations conducted on board.
17 February 1947: Decommissioned
1 July 1958: Sold
1958-1960: Scrapped at Kearney, New Jersey. Nameplate from the stern preserved at River Vale, New Jersey, where it remains to this day.

1946-1959 Blimp “Enterprise II” (USA)

Length: 148 feet (45.1 m)
Diameter: 46 feet (14.0 m)
Gas Volume: 123,000 cubic feet (3,483 cu.m)
Propulsion: Two 145hp Warner R-500-2/6 Radial
Diameter: 46 feet (14.0 m)
Maximum speed: 62mph
Crew: 4
Armament: None
Builder: Goodyear
Built: 1946
The second Goodyear Enterprise was also an advertising blimp. She was previously the US Navy blimp L-16. It is stated in Jane’s that the Enterprise II had an experimental envelope in 1948.

1959-1985 Inshore Survey ship A 71 (UK)
(’E’ class, sister ships Echo and Egeria )

Displacement : 120 tons std, 160 tons full
Length : 32.6 m
Beam : 7.0 m
Draught : 2.1 m
Propulsion : Twin diesels, 4,500 nm at 12 knots, max speed 14 knots
Compliment : 2 officers, 16 enlisted
Armament: none
Builder : M. W. Blackmore & Sons, Bedeford, UK
Commissioned : 1959
No armament, Type 1006 radar and echo sounders. The class was paid off (decommissioned) in January 1985.

1961-present Aircraft Carrier CVAN-65 (USA)
(Enterprise class)

World’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Like her predecessor, she is nicknamed “The Big E”. There are no other ships in her class. See the Navy’s official CVN-65 Homepage. Also, check out the Enterprise Association web page. The full entry for CVAN-65 from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is available on-line, but since DANFS was published in 1963, and the ship was commissioned in 1961, the entry is very short.

Displacement: 75,700 std, 91,100 full load
Length: 1119′ 9″ (many sources list 1101′ 6″)
Beam: 126′ 4″ at waterline, 256″ 11″ over flight deck
Draught: 35′ 5″
Propulsion: 8 Westinghouse A2W nuclear fission reactors, geared steam turbines, 280,000(?) SHP = 36(?) knots
Compliment: 425 officers, 4154 crew, including air crew
10 November 2001: Returns to Norfolk, VA. Currently scheduled for decommissioning in 2015.

 1976-present Space Shuttle OV-101 (USA)
(Enterprise class)

Length: 122′
Wingspan: 78′
Mass: ~75 tons (unfueled)
Designed Propulsion:
3 SSME liquid hydrogen fueled rockets, 470,000 lbs thrust each
2 Morton-Thiokol Solid Rocket Boosters.
2 monomethyl-hydrazine/nitrogen tetroxide OMS
Actual propulsion: None
Designed Compliment: 2-7
Contract Awarded: 26 July 1972
Structural Assembly Started: 21 June 1973(?)
Final Assembly Started: 24 August 1975
Final Assembly Completed: 12 March 1976(?)
Rollout: 17 September 1976
Builder: Rockwell International Space Division, Palmdale, CA
Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, was originally to be named Constitution (in honor of the U.S. Bicentennial). However, viewers of the popular TV Science Fiction show Star Trek started a write-in campaign urging the White House to rename the vehicle Enterprise. While OV-101 never made it into space, she was a valuable testbed for the space shuttle program.
20 November 1985: Ferried to Dulles Airport, near Washington, DC, where she still remains. Ownership transferred to Smithsonian Institution. She will be on display at the new Dulles Center when it opens in 2003.

1976-1987? Racing Yacht (USA)

Builder: Minnefords in City Island, (New York City)
Launched: December 1976

1979 - 1991 Blimp GZ-20
(sisters, America and Columbia)
Owned by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

Overall Length: 192 feet
Height: 57.5 feet Width: 46 feet
Volume: 202,700 cubic feet of helium
Compliment: 6 passengers plus pilot
Car length-23ft / height-8ft / width-4.33 to 7ft
Weight: 12,840 lbs
Speed: 30-50 mph
Altitude: 1-3,000ft
Range: 500miles
Propulsion: two 310 HP fuel injected aircraft piston engines, two 78 inch two-blade propellers
Cost: $2.5 million

1981-present Patrol Craft P02 (Barbados)
(Enterprise class)
Commissioned : August 1981
Builders : Desco Marine
Displacement : 40 tons
Length : 75′ (22.8 m)
Beam : 20′ 4″ (6.2 m)
Draught : 5′ 11″ (1.8 m)
Crew : 9
Propulsion : 1 Caterpillar diesel
Armament : 1 20mm gun
75 ft shrimp boats converted for patrol duties by Swan Hunter (Trinidad) in 1980-81. In service with the naval arm of the Barbados Defence Forces.

2151-21xx Starship (heavy cruiser) NX-01 (UFP?)
(NX? Class)
Launched: April 2151

2245-2285 Starship (heavy cruiser) NCC-1701 (UFP)
(Constitution Class)

Mass: 190,000 metric tons
Length: 947′ (later, 1000′)
Beam: 417′
Height: 236′ 9″ (23 decks)
Propulsion:
2 Cochrane type Space Warp nacelles = Warp Factor 6 (cruising speed) = Warp Factor 8 (emerg. speed)
2 fusion impulse sublight engines
Compliment: 430
Builder: Earth orbit, (components from Mare Island, California)
Chief Designer: W. Matt Jeffries
2286 - 2293? Starship (heavy cruiser) NCC-1701-A (UFP)
(Constitution Class)

Mass: 190,000 metric tons
Length: 1000′
Beam: 417′
Height: 233′ (23 decks)
Propulsion:
2 Cochrane type Space Warp nacelles,
2 fusion impulse sublight engines
Compliment: 430
Builder: Earth orbit? (components from Mare Island, California?)
For the record, NCC-1701A is a Constitution class starship. If you look carefully in “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”, when the plans for the ship are unrolled, it does explicitly say that she is a Constitution class. That makes it “canon”.

2293 - 23xx Starship (heavy cruiser) NCC-1701B (UFP)
(Excelsior Class)

Length: 1532′ 1″
Beam: 605′
Height:
Builder: Starfleet Antares Shipyard
Compliment: Arrives Tuesday

23xx - 2344 Starship (heavy cruiser) NCC-1701-C (UFP)
(Ambassador Class)

Length: 1735′ 6″
Beam: 1040′
Height: 425′
Builder: Earth Station McKinley
Chief Designer: Greg Jein

2363-2371 Starship (heavy cruiser) NCC-1701-D (UFP)
(Galaxy Class)

Length: 2103′
Beam: 1544′
Height: 482′ (42 decks)
Compliment: 1012
Propulsion:
2 WPS nacelles
8 IPS impulse sublight engines, 24 IRC fusion reactors.
Builder: Utopia Planitia, Mars
Chief Designer: Andrew Probert
note: Since the Enterprise seen in the final TNG episode “All Good Things ” was explicitly NCC-1701D, and was also in an alternate time line, (an unlikely alternate, given the events in Generations) I have chosen not to give any specifications for it.

2373-23?? Starship (heavy cruiser) NCC-1701-E (UFP)
(Sovereign class)

Length: 2248′
Beam: 820′
Height: 290′
L of saucer: 1150′
Nacelle span: 700′
L of nacelles: 1056′

Other Enterprises:
There seems to have been a British ship named Enterprize which was sent off to find the new passage to the Orient in 1616. She succeeded, but was destroyed in a hurricane near India. There is little data on her. Apparently, there was a British ship named Enterprize that explored the Yarra River in Australia around 1820. I have no additional data.  There has been a Malaysian supply ship named Enterprise since the late 1980s. I’m looking for data on her. Apparently, she is very small. There is also currently a schooner named Enterprise, built 1947. Again, I’m trying to get more information. A group in Washington DC is attempting to create a replica of the 1799-1823 Enterprise, to be called “Spirit of Enterprize”. (sic) Details are available on their website. There was a picture of an earlier space ship named Enterprise in Star Trek: TMP. There was no information about this ship in the movie, but the Star Trek Space Flight Chronology lists what is apparently this same ship, as a Declaration class, 2123-2165 AD, While this ship’s connection to “canon” is tenuous at best, (and, as of 2001, has been contradicted by the new series “Enterprise”) the statistics are reproduced here:

Length - 300m
Diameter - 210m
Living section width - 28.7m
Mass - 52.7 million kg
Ship’s Compliment:
Crew and Service Personnel - 100
Passenger Capacity - 850
Total ship’s compliment - 950
Performance:
Range - Standard = 350 light years Maximum= 1,200 light years
Cruising Speed - Warp 3.2 (32.8c)
Voyage duration - Standard 3 months Maximum 2.5 years
Systems:
Navigation - Celestial Warp Reader
Communication - Subspace Radio
Recreation - Null-grav gymnasium 5 dining rooms 3 theaters 3 nightclubs Forward and Rear stellar observatories
Life support: Gravity - .2 -1.2 g Atmosphere - 20% Oxygen, 11% humidity
Sustenance duration - Up to 40 years if outfitted for long-duration exploration
Engineering and Science
Advanced 2nd Generation Warp Drive
Fuel: 10:1 matter to antimatter
Separated engine and living sections for improved efficiency
Improvements and innovations:
First class of ship equipped with sub-space radio
Most popular passenger carrier of its time
This original Enterprise was the first stellar spaceliner built specifically for the major Federation space lanes (such as Earth - Alpha Centauri). The travel demand that blossomed in the 22nd century resulted in 957 of these Declaration class ships being commissioned.

Sources:
“Aircraft Carriers of the U.S. Navy” (2nd Edition), by Stefan Terzibaschitsch, ISBN 0-87021-001-7 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD 1989
“The Battle of Leyte Gulf 24-26 October 1944″ by Thomas J. Cutler, ISBN 0-06-016949-4, Harper-Collins, New York NY, 1994
“The Big E” by Edward P. Stafford ISBN 0-87021036X, Random House, New York NY, 1962
“British Battleships, 1860-1950″ by Oscar Parkes, ISBN 1-55750-075-4 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD
“Cruisers of World War II”, by M.J.Whitley, ISBN 1-55750-141-6 Arms and Armor Press, London 1995
“Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships”, U.S. Navy, 1963. Andrew Toppan maintains an on-line version.
“Encyclopedia of the Modern Royal Navy” by Paul Beaver. Patrick Stephens Limited, 2nd ed 1985.
“Fighting Ships of World War II” by J.N. Westwood
“The German Navy 1939-1945″ by Cajus Bekker
“History of the Vessel Enterprise” by Ronn Roden, Intergalactic Press, 1992, ISBN 0-962-94323-1
“An Illustrated History of the Navies of World War II” by Anthony Preston
“Jane’s Fighting Ships 1987-88″ Capt John Moore ed. Jane’s Publishing Company Ltd. 1987
“Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War II”, ISBN 0-517-67963-9 Military Press, 1989
“Jane’s Pocket Book of Airships” Macmillan, 1977
“Macmillan Color Series, Balloons and Airships” Macmillan, 1974
“Navies of the Second World War British Cruisers”
“The Making of Star Trek”, by Roddenberry & Whitfield, Ballantine Books, New York NY, 1968
“Ships of the Star Fleet (vol. 1) 2290-2291″, by Calon Riel, Mastercom Data Center, Wilbraham MA, 1987
“Star Fleet Technical Manual”, by Franz Joseph, ISBN 345-24730-2-695, Ballantine Books, New York, NY 1975
“The Star Trek Encyclopedia” by Okuda, Okuda, & Mirek, ISBN 0-671-86905-1 Pocket Books, New York, NY 1994
“Star Trek Space Flight Chronology” by Stan & Fred Goldstein, Pocket Books, New York, NY 1980
“Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual” by Sternbach & Okuda ISBN 0-671-70427-3 Pocket Books, New York, NY 1991
“The Two Ocean War”, by Samuel Eliot Morison ISBN 0-316-58352-9 , Little Brown & Co., 1963
“U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History”, by Norman Friedman, ISBN 0-87021-739-9 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD, 1983
“Voyages of the Enterprise”, a website by Arnold E. van Beverhoudt Jr.
“Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945″ by Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, ISBN 0-87021-893-X Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD 1976
NASA’s Space Shuttle web page
NASA’s Shuttle Enterprise web page

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