| Name | Express (1874) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunboat | ||
| Launched | 16 July 1874 | ||
| Hull | Composite | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 455 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1889 | ||
| Class | Forester | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 10 August 1875 - 28 January 1878 | Commanded by Lieutenant Hon. Algernon Charles Littleton, Gibraltar | ||
| 10 January 1881 - 9 November 1881 | Commanded by Captain Hon. Edmund Robert Fremantle, senior naval officer at Gibraltar | ||
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