_Enterprise_, American schooner, captures the French privateer _Seine_, i. 330; sent to Tripoli in charge of Lieutenant Andrew Sterrett, 335; battle with the war polacre _Tripoli_, 335; the luckiest, naval ship of the War of 1812, ii. 372; captures eight privateers, 373; cruises in the Mediterranean, _ib._; captures the _Tripoli_ and the ketch _Mastico_, _ib._; changed to a brig and overloaded with guns, 374; drives off English privateers under command of Master-commandant Johnston Blakely, 375; Lieutenant William Burrows takes charge of her, _ib._; cruises for privateers, _ib._; encounters the _Boxer_, _ib._; her commander wounded, and Lieutenant McCall takes his place, 377, 378; the _Boxer_ surrenders, 379; after the battle Master-commandant James Renshaw appointed to command, 386; cruises off the southern coast, _ib._; escapes from a British frigate, _ib._; employed as harbor guard, 387. _Enterprise_, American sloop, i. 89. _Epervier_, British brig-sloop, captured by the _Peacock_, iii. 66–71; taken into Savannah by Lieutenant John B. Nicholson, 76–78. _Epervier_, American ship, lost at sea, iii. 354. _Era_, Confederate steamer, captured by Federal fleet, iv. 352. Erben, Captain Henry, at Fort Pillow, iv. 289. _Ericsson_, a name given to the first monitor, iv. 215. Ericsson, John, Swedish engineer, his screw propeller, iv. 10; his boat the _Francis B. Ogden_, _ib._; induced to come to America, 11; plans the first screw steamship, 12; Naval Board makes a contract with, for the _Monitor_, 191. Erie, Pa., chosen as base of operations for gaining control of Lake Erie, ii. 282; ship-building at, 286. _Espiègle_, British war-brig, chased by Captain Lawrence of the _Hornet_, ii. 181; again chased after sinking the _Peacock_, 190. _Essex_, American frigate, sent to Tripoli, i. 335. _Essex_, American frigate, ii. 33; first cruise in War of 1812, 34–50; British frigate _Minerva_ refuses to fight with, 39–41; captures the _Alert_, 41–43; crew of _Alert_ plan a rescue, 44; chased by the _Shannon_, 47; Farragut’s account of the crew, 49; begins her second cruise, Oct. 8, 1812, iii. 1; cruises off Port Praya, 2; captures the brig _Nocton_, 2, 3; dysentery among the crew, 4; panic on board, 6; painted and disguised, 8; captures British whalers, _ib._; refitted from the captured ships, 9; captures the _Atlantic_ and the _Greenwich_, _ib._; captures the _Charlton_, 13; goes into the harbor of Nukahiva to refit, 18–21; an incipient mutiny on, 21; attacked by the _Phœbe_ and _Cherub_, 24–43; losses of, 44; sent to England to be added to the British Navy, 48; her captures, 52; amount of damage done to the enemy, _ib._