Twelve ships of the
French Navy
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have borne the name ''Entreprenant'' and four ''Entreprenante'', after the French word for "enterprising"
Ships named ''Entreprenant''
* , a 30-gun ship of the line, was started as ''Entreprenant''
* , a frigate-fireship
[Roche, vol.1, p. 176]
* , a 6-gun fireship, bore the name
* , a 54-gun ship of the line
* , a 74-gun
* , a 74-gun
* , an
aviso, captured by the Royal Navy in 1800
* , an aviso, captured by the Royal Navy in 1801
* , exchanged with captives
*
''Entreprenant'', captured and disposed of in 1808
* , an 18-gun brig, captured during the
Invasion of Île de France
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. Broken up as unfit for
Royal Navy
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service.
* , a 20-gun brig
* (1917), an auxiliary patrol boat
[Roche, vol.2, p. 193]
* (1940), a
In addition to the naval vessels, a number of French privateers and other vessels have also borne the name.
Privateers named ''Entreprenante''
*''Entreprenante'': On 7 April 1694 captured the privateer ''Entreprenante''; the British Royal Navy took her into service as
*''Entreprenant'': On 13 March 1761, , under the command of Captain
Gamaliel Nightingale, captured the 44-gun ''Entreprenant'', which however was armed
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with only 26 guns. Still, the capture was sanguinary for both sides.
*''Entreprenante'': On 2 December 1799 the British merchant ship captured the French privateer corvette ''Entreprenante'', of 18 guns and 130–195 men, off San Domingo in an engagement that was particularly sanguinary for the French.
*''Entreprenant'': On 13 January 1808, captured the French privateer ''Entreprenant'', of 16 guns and 58 men, south southeast of
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, with the assistance of the
hired armed cutter ''Active''.
Ships named ''Entreprenante''
*
''Bayonnaise'' (1672), a barque, bore the name
[Roche, vol.1, p. 67]
*
''Entreprenante'' (1692), a 24-gun frigate, scuttled by fire at the
Battle of Vigo Bay
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''Entreprenante'' (1717), a longboat
*
''Entreprenante'' (1858), a steam storeship
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