HMS Express (1800)
HMS ''Express'' was the name-ship of a class of two schooner-rigged advice-boats of the Royal Navy. ''Express'' was launched in 1800 and served until she was sold in 1813. During her career she served in one action and one campaign that in 1847 qualified her surviving crew members for clasps to the Naval General Service Medal. Career In January 1801 Lieutenant Robert Sayer commissioned ''Express'' for Jersey. Then in August 1802 he sailed her for Trinidad. She spent several years there as a tender with no fixed commanding officer. In July 1805 ''Express'' was in the Leeward Islands under the command of Lieutenant William Swiney. His replacement was Lieutenant George Spearing. In July and early August of 1806, ''Express'' was part of a squadron that included and , and that was under the command of Commander Donald Campbell (acting), in ''HMS Lilly''. Together, they supported General Francisco de Miranda, aboard his ship ''Leander'', in his quixotic and unsuccessful attempt to ...
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John Randall (shipbuilder)
John Randall (1755–1802) was an English shipbuilder. Life The son of John Randall, shipbuilder of Rotherhithe, he had a liberal education, and on the death of his father, around 1776, continued the shipbuilding business under his own management. He also worked on mathematics, and naval construction. In addition to many ships which he built for the mercantile marine and for the East India Company, Randall built over 50 naval vessels. They included 74-gun ships and large frigates, among them being HMS ''Audacious'', HMS ''Ramillies'', and HMS ''Culloden'', noted in the French Revolutionary Wars. He took a prominent part in founding the Society of Naval Architects. On the Peace of Amiens, Randall lowered his rates of pay from the wartime level, and his men went out on strike. The Admiralty permitted him to take on workmen from the Deptford dockyard, and offered a military force to protect them, which was turned down. The Deptford men were prevented from working in his yard; an ...
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