Enterprise-class gunboat

	USS Alliance off Staten Island c. 1900
Class overview
Name	Enterprise class
Builders	Boston Navy Yard; Norfolk Navy Yard; Portsmouth Navy Yard; Washington Navy Yard;
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	Kansas class
Succeeded by	Alert class
Built	1873–1879
In service	1876–1930
Planned	5
Completed	5
Retired	5
General characteristics
Type	Screw gunboat
Displacement	1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
Length	225–232 ft (69–71 m)
Beam	38 ft (12 m)
Draft	16.7 ft (5.1 m)
Installed power	800 ihp (600 kW)
Propulsion	8 × boilers; 1 × engine; 1 × propeller;
Sail plan	Bark-rigged sails
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	4 × 9-inch (23 cm) Dahlgren guns; 1 × pivot gun;

The Enterprise-class gunboats were a series of five wooden-hulled, screw-driven gunboats operated by the US Navy in the later half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The ships were ordered in 1873 when the Navy stalled technologically in the post-Civil War era. Commissioned throughout the decade, the vessels served around the world until the late 1880s. They were then repurposed as either hulks or training ships before they were sold off by 1930.