After the _South-Western_ came the _Wonder_, _Express_, _Courier_, and _Dispatch_. They each had a speed of thirteen to fourteen knots. The _Express_ was built and launched in six weeks. At the time she was laid down the engines put into her were in the yard ready for a Government steamer, but were used for the _Express_ instead. This same _Express_ was the steamer which brought Louis Philippe a fugitive from France in 1848, her commander on that occasion being Fred Paul, R.N., who had been lent by the Government to the company for that purpose. Louis Philippe, disguised as a fisherman, crossed from Honfleur to Havre in a fishing smack and was put on board the _Express_ lying in the avant-port of Havre. As soon as his feet touched her deck, Commander Paul, who was lying under a full head of steam, slipped her moorings, steamed away and landed the fugitive at Littlehampton. A brass plate stating the facts was fastened to the sofa in the saloon, on which Louis Philippe slept. The _Express_ was lost on September 20, 1859, on the passage from Jersey to Southampton in the Jailer Passage off the Corbière Lighthouse, Jersey. The next steamers acquired by the company were the _Alliance_ in 1855, _Havre_, _Normandy_, and _Southampton_ in 1860, and _Brittany_ in 1864. Until she was outclassed by larger and faster ships the _Alliance_ was on the Havre route. She was afterwards transferred to the service between Jersey and St. Malo, and was sold in 1900. The _Havre_ ran alternately to her name-port and the Channel Islands until her career was ended on February 16, 1875, by the Platte Boue, a sunken rock in the Russel Passage near Guernsey. There was no loss of life and the mails were also saved.