USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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' red it 1 1 St EtSOl The second Enterprise was an 8-gun, 25-ton schooner with a w of 60 men. It was commissioned into the Continental Navy 1776 from the state of Maryland. The schooner served chiefly in conveying transports in Chesa- -.. like Bay. However, it was also active in spying Oil enemy ships 1 preventing British tenders and barges from getting supplies m the shores of Maryland and Virginia. It is not known how this ship ' s career ended. - iik kHiild ta. then mlidre i Btfctpl v twtadi In 1799, the third Enterprise was commissioned. It was a 135-ton schooner with 12 6-pounders and 70 officers and men. Enterprise left the Delaware Capes Dec. 17, 1799 on its way to Guadaloupe, where it joined Commodore Thomas Truxtun ' s squadron. While attached to Truxtun ' s squadron during the quasi- war with France, Enterprise recaptured 1 1 American merchant- men and took seven French privateers. Enterprise was again called to action in the Mediterranean during the war with Tripoli (1801-1804). Lt. Stephan Decatur, who gained fame and notoriety after boarding and burning the captured frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor, was an Enterprise commanding officer. This proud ship finished its distinguished service in the Gulf of Mexico where it patrolled against pirates, smugglers and slavers. It was lost at sea on July 9, 1823 in the West Indies. . Urcti 16.1377. It jTStocdisplacem jMannesandatnb , - girt tot Norfolk ' i teEaop 01 0f0 The sixth Enterprise was a 66-foot motor patrol craft pur- hased by the Navy on Dec. 6, 1916. It was placed in service at the Second Naval District and per- armed harbor tug duties at Newport, Rhode Island. On Dec. 11, 1917 the patrol craft was shifted to New Bedford Massachusetts for operations inside the breakwaters and was sub- equently transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries on Aug. 2, 1919. madia tveas The Fighting Gray Lady was the seventh Enterprise. Its keel was laid in 1934 and it was commissioned May 12, 1938. It was 827 feet long and 114 feet wide at the flight deck. It displaced 25,000 tons and could sustain 33. 6 knots. It was manned by 82 officers and 1447 men, exclusive of its air group. Enterprise was returning to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. In WWII, Enterprise was flagship for Vice Adm. Halsey and Vice Adm. Spruance. It carried Adm. Spruance in the Battle of Midway and accompanied USS Hornet on the Doolittle raid. It supported landings at Guadalcanal and Tulagi and took part in the battles of Santa-Cruz, the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf. Its planes were in on the Marianas Turkey Shoot and pioneered night air strike operations aided by radar. The carrier was the most decorated ship of the war. It was decommissioned on Feb. 17, 1947.

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i I I X iasc The first Enterprise began as a 70-ton British sloop that plied posts along Lake Champlain. After the Americans captured Fort Ticonderoga May 10, 1775 Benedict Arnold realized he would] not control Lake Champlain until he captured it. Arnold ' s opportunity presented itself when he learned the ship 1 was stationed with the British garrison at St. John ' s on thel Richelieu in Canada. On May 14, he set out from Skenesborou (now Whitehall, New York), surprised and captured the Britisl garrison four days later. He took possession of the sloop and sailed it south to Crown Point. Renamed Enterprise, it fought against the British at the battle of Valcour Island as part of Arnold ' s fleet, then withdrew tc Ticonderoga to help obstruct the British advance for a year. Its service ended on July 7, 1777 when it was beached and burned to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy fcscto feto. Hov ittskes lis onto The fourth Enterprise was also a schooner and was commis- sioned on Dec. 15, 1831. It was 88 feet long with a 23 foot beam; armed with ten 24-9 pound guns, and manned by nine officers and 63 men. Enterprise first joined the Brazil Squadron, then made a cruise around the world in 1835-36. After service in South America, it was sold out of the Navy in 1845. The fifth Enterprise entered service March 16, 1877. It wa 185 feet long with a 35 foot beam and 1,375 ton displacement. 1 carried a crew of 195 officers, Sailors and Marines and at 1 2 knot under steam was one of the fastest vessels in the North Atlantic In 1 878, Enterprise surveyed the Amazon and Madeira river in Brazil. The survey took the ship 1 ,300 miles inland. On Jan. 2, 1883 Enterprise sailed from Norfolk to join th Asiatic squadron. During its 38-month transit, it visited Chines treaty-ports, and witnessed the French defeat of the Chinese fleet Enterprise was refitted and sent to the European squadron i 1886. In 1891 it was sent to the U.S. Naval Academy for mid shipmen training. The following year it was assigned to the Mas sachusetts Nautical Training School where, for many years helped teach seamanship to Massachusetts youths. The ship was sold out of the Navy in 1909. . N

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I • • 1 U tod ::v ,: ' mkU jirtl ' o SBlfcrlikt • 1j,W BR9H H -• jfc r-i — r-t ' . j iSi fttoi ' .V » Rk fa fiT--.. T:.j5 ' lft r l ' ; jB n IfVlX I IIS llHlii. ftp ■Ik duitn HRP j AC- ' --S|{iL di MS vMB Bib F - v iJk A kM 8? k V MfaP ■BL ' BBI it tons E CVANBS — c; ; ; «fcv r Unerealitu lyOl On November 25, the eighth U.S. ship was commissioned bearing the name Enterprise. During commissioning ceremonies held in Norfolk, Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally, Jr., called the ship a worthy successor to the highly decorated seventh Enterprise of World War II fame. In his remarks, Connally said Enterprise will reign a long, long time as ' queen of the seas. ' lyOZ, On January 12, Enterprise left Norfolk for a three-month shakedown cruise. When it finished in April, it returned with the highest score ever attained by a new aircraft carrier. Air Wing Six came aboard June 22. In August, Enterprise joined the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Soon after its return in October, Enterprise would be called upon for its first international crisis, the quarantine of Cuba to prevent the Soviet Union from basing ballistic missiles there. The blockade was put in place on October 24, and the first Soviet ship was stopped the next day. On October 28, Khrushchev finally agreed to remove the missiles and dismantle the missile bases in Cuba. lyCkJ During much of this time, Enterprise was with the Sixth Fleet on its second Mediterranean deployment. Iz Cy-t On February 8, Enterprise rei to the Mediterranean briefly for a third On May 1 3, the world ' s first nuclear-powi task force was formed when USS Long B and USS Bainbridge joined Enterprise. July 3 1, the three ships were designated T;l :taa« Force One and sent on Operation Sea Orf I ,. ; - a 30,565-mile voyage around the world. l| October, Enterprise returned to Newport News for its first refueling and overhaul. c bin ±y(X) Enterprise, Long Beach and Bainbridge transferred to the Pacific Fleet] Carrier Air Wing Nine reported aboard in | September. The Big E joined the Seven Fleet on November 2 1 and became the fir Ad •Ti»; »!« JiLjeanwnue lyOl John F. Kennedy becomes Presi- dent; the Peace Corps was established; the invasion of the Bay of Pigs fails; the Berlin Wall is constructed; Civil war erupts in the Dominican Republic, Cmdr. Alan Shepard becomes the second man in space. 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis evolves; Venus probe is launched; John Glenn orbits the earth; Book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo ' s Nest, Movies: Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra. lyCkJ Superpower hot line established; nuclear test-ban treaty signed; Freedom marchers trek from Selma, Ala.; M.L. King delivers dream speech; Kennedy is assassinated; Johnson assumes the presidency; a Buddhist-led coup topples the South Vietnam government, Over 16,000 Amer|) troops are in South Vietnam. iyu4 The Destroyers Maddox and ' Joy are attacked by North Vietnamese paffl boats; Tonkin resolution passed; Bombinal North Vietnam begins; Beatlemania sweet] North America; UN peace force takes ov Cyprus, Films: Zorba the Greek, Lor the Flies. -.:.. ih .,, :•:: ' ■