Eight vessels of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Express'', or ''Express'':
* was a 6-gun advice boat of 77 tons (
bm) launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1695, and sold in 1712.
* was a small, 6-gun schooner-rigged advice boat launched in 1800 and sold in 1813.
* was a schooner of 4 guns that served in the Mediterranean as a
ship's tender
A ship's tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat, or a larger ship, used to service or support other boats or ships. This is generally done by transporting people or supplies to and from shore or another ship.
A second and distinctl ...
from 1815 until she was sold at Malta in 1827. She had been ''Achilles'', launched in 1809, and renamed ''Anna Maria'' in 1813. In 1814 she served the Royal Navy as an advice boat under the name ''Anna Maria''.
* was a packet
brig of six guns and 362 tons (bm) launched at Deptford in 1835 and sold at Plymouth at 1862.
* was a composite screw gunboat of four guns and 455 tons launched at Doxford in 1874, and sold in 1889.
* , a
torpedo boat destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
launched in 1896.
* , an
E-class destroyer launched in 1934.
* , a P2000 , commissioned in the 1980s, with the pennant number P163 (renamed and redesignated from XSV ''Express'' (A163) after transfer from the disbanded
Royal Naval Auxiliary Service
The Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (RNXS) was a uniformed, unarmed, civilian volunteer service, administered and trained by the Royal Navy to operate in the ports and anchorages of the United Kingdom in an emergency. Although the abbreviated title w ...
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Royal Navy ship names