HMS Enterprise - H88




Name: HMS Enterprise
Ordered: 19 June 2000[1]
Builder: Appledore Shipbuilders
Launched: 2 May 2002[1]
Sponsored by: Lady Sally Forbes
Commissioned: 17 October 2003[1]
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification:
Motto:
  • Latin:Spes aspera levat
  • ("Hope lightens difficulties")
Status: in active service
Badge:
  • On a Field Red, a lion rampant under a star Silver
  • HMS Enterprise badge.jpg
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Echo-class survey vessel
Displacement: 3,740 t (3,680 long tons; 4,120 short tons)
Length: 90.6 m (297 ft 3 in)
Beam: 16.8 m (55 ft 1 in)
Draught: 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Range: 9,300 nmi (17,200 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Endurance: 35 days
Boats & landing
craft carried:
Survey motor boat
Complement: 72
Sensors and
processing systems:
Integrated survey system[N 1]
Armament:

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