Express
 Official Number
21304

The Express was a two-masted schooner built at Whitehaven by William Bowes, and launched on the 19th January 1827.

In 1840 she was registered at Whitehaven and was owned by Thomas Hammond & Co., master Capt. H.T.Walker. Her registry was transferred to Maryport in 1847.

The Express was bought for £210 18s 9d by John Carswell of Palnackie and James Carswell of Dalbeattie on the 18th  May 1858 at Maryport (see Source 3).

The Express was lost in Red Bay, Co.Antrim in 1880, a year after she had been sold to Belfast owners.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Express
1827
126 om, 102 nm
 65.5
18.1 
11.1 
2 
 Women Bust
 Square
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  2. A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven.
  3. Information provided by John Searle. His great-grandfather's diary states that the vessel was bought for £500 less a discount. Vessel signal code NFSC.
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