HMS Enterprize (1744)

The fourth HMS Enterprize, 44, of the Royal Navy was originally commissioned as Norwich, 50, a fourth-rate, in 1718. On May 23, 1744, while the captured sloop named Enterprize was still in commission, the Navy renamed Norwich to Enterprize while reducing her to a fifth-rate. She patrolled the Caribbean until the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1748, when she was laid up in ordinary.

Enterprize was recommissioned in 1756 at the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, again for service in the West Indies and North America and resuming her duties as Atlantic convoy escort. In 1762 she was present at the siege and capture of Havana, Cuba, an action involving nearly 60 warships and transports enough for more than 16,000 troops.

Enterprize was decommissioned in January 1764 and was broken up in 1771 at Sheerness.

See HMS Enterprise for other Navy ships of this name.