* USS Enterprise, any of several ships of the United States Navy including:

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701 ), the main setting of the original Star Trek television series and several Star Trek films

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-A ), the main setting of the fifth and sixth Star Trek films

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-B ), launched at the start of Star Trek: Generations

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ), appears in the Star Trek: Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise "

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-D ), the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-E ), the main setting for the films Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-J ), appears in the episode of Star Trek: Enterprise " Azati Prime " in the 26th century

* USS Enterprise ( BLDG 7115 ), a U. S. Navy Recruit Barracks named in honor of the Navy's Enterprise ships

The television program within the film, Galaxy Quest, is set around the starship NSEA Protector, an instrument of the National Space Exploration Administration, which are obviously parodies of the USS Enterprise and Starfleet respectively.

Three nuclear powered American warships, ( top to bottom ) nuclear cruisers USS Bainbridge ( CGN-25 ) | USS Bainbridge and USS Long Beach ( CGN-9 ) | USS Long Beach with USS Enterprise ( CVN-65 ) | USS Enterprise the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier in 1964.

Registry: USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C )

# Well of Souls by Ilsa J. Bick ( November 2003 ), set in 2336 aboard the USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ) under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett.

In 1968, the Nineteenth responded to North Korea's seizure of the USS Pueblo.

The USS Simpson ( FFG-56 ) responded to the challenge by firing two Standard missiles, while Wainwright followed with one Standard missile.

The colony's distress call was answered by the Federation starship USS Intrepid.

In 2371, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D receives a distress call from a solar observatory.

# Vengeance: The Enterprise, responding to a distress call from the USS Republic, finds it nearly destroyed.

The USS Defiant answered the fake distress call, becoming trapped in the interphase and eventually winding up in the Mirror Universe.

On stardate 4202. 9, following a trail of destroyed solar systems, the USS Enterprise responds to a distress call, finding their sister ship, the USS Constellation, adrift and heavily damaged in a system whose two inner planets are still intact.

Around stardate 3541. 9, the starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, investigates a distress call from the Malurian star system.

On stardate 2713. 5, the starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, follows an old planetary distress call leading to a planet that resembles Earth in every detail.

Realizing he had been duped, he races back to Capella IV, but receives another distress signal along the way, this time from the USS Carolina.

The communications officer, Lt. Uhura, receives a garbled distress call, but all she can make out are the sector coordinates and the name of the ship, the USS Intrepid, which is manned entirely by Vulcans.

The starship USS Enterprise responds to a distress call from an uncharted planet.

On stardate 4768. 3, the starship USS Enterprise picks up a curious distress call from a distant planet that was presumed uninhabited ; the supposed victim of an ancient global disaster.

On stardate 5784. 2, the starship USS Enterprise, responding to a distress call, arrives at a planet that is highly enriched with rare kironide mineral deposits.

On stardate 5029. 5, the starship USS Enterprise intercepts a distress call from the planet Triacus, where a scientific expedition is located.

On stardate 5630. 3, the starship USS Enterprise receives a distress call from a human colony on Beta XII-A.

On stardate 5710. 5, the starship USS Enterprise follows an automated audio-visual distress call to the planet Scalos, which is outside known Federation space.

On stardate 5928. 5, the USS Enterprise rushes to answer a distress call from the planet Camus II, the site of an archaeological expedition that is exploring ancient ruins of a long vanished culture.

The episode begins with the USS Enterprise approaching Mab-Bu VI, from where it has detected a distress call.

The USS Enterprise-D receives an automated distress call from satellites orbiting a human colony on the planet Bringloid V, which is in danger from solar flares from its star.

The Enterprise receives a distress call from the USS Lantree and arrives at the ship's last location to find it adrift.

The schooner sailing ship in the engraving is the USS Babcock which served in the United States Navy from 1917 – 1919, and is seen passing through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay, its port of call.

Bradley also suggested that official Navy protests of Secretary Johnson's actions in cancelling construction of its supercarrier, the USS United States were due to improper personal or political, even mutinous motives, calling Navy admirals " fancy dans who won't hit the line with all they have on every play unless they can call the signals ", and who were in " open rebellion against the civilian control.

* The USS Hornet aircraft carrier made Puerto Cortés a port of call in 1963.

On 4 December 1946, Escort Carrier Air Group 1 ( CVEG-1 ) was assigned to the escort carrier USS Badoeng Strait, and VA-1E was identified by the tail code " BS " ( call sign " Beef Steak ").

He took command of the battleship USS New Jersey on 27 August 1969 and helped decommission her on 17 December 1969 with these words: " Rest well, yet sleep lightly ; and hear the call, if again sounded, to provide firepower for freedom.

* Home Run ( call sign ) US Navy call sign for the Gearing-class destroyer USS Leary ( DDR-879 )

The war also expanded with naval operations in 1862 when the CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, damaged or destroyed three Union vessels in Norfolk, Virginia, before being engaged and damaged by the USS Monitor.

When the silent drive is engaged, the submarine disappears off the sonar of the USS Dallas, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, which was tracking Red October since she put to sea.

The Virginia, which was still called the Merrimack by Union forces and in many historical accounts, engaged the Union ironclad USS Monitor in the famous Battle of Hampton Roads during the Union blockade of Hampton Roads.

March 26, 2009 USS Benfold simultaneously engaged a SRBM in terminal phase and a cruise missile using SM-2's.

The following day, the USS Monitor ironclad arrived at the scene and engaged with the Virginia, the famous first duel of the ironclads.

In the morning of July 16, 1863, under sanction by Minister Pruyn, in an apparent swift response to the attack on the Pembroke, the U. S. frigate, USS Wyoming, under Captain McDougal himself sailed into the strait and single-handedly engaged the US-built but poorly manned local fleet.

In 1822, with USS Peacock and HMS Speedwell, Alabama engaged pirates again, which resulted in the taking of five more pirate ships.

For distinguished service as Commanding Officer USS Benham, engaged in the important, exacting, and hazardous duty of patrolling European waters and protecting vitally important convoys, he was awarded the Navy Cross.

Commanding USS Albatross, Hart served in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War and engaged two Confederate steamers in the Red River near Fort DeRussey 4 May 1863.

In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident when the USS Maddox of the United States Navy engaged North Vietnamese ships, sustaining light damage as it gathered electronic intelligence while in the international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered Operation " Pierce Arrow " which was conducted on August 5.

The Sewell's Point battery and other batteries in the area engaged Union vessels on other occasions over the next 12 months, including engagements of Union vessels or supporting fire against them during the clash of the ironclads ( the Union's USS Monitor and the Confederacy's CSS Virginia, formerly USS Merrimack ) during the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862.