Orange Grove (1790 ship)

Orange Grove first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1790.[1]

1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1790–1791): Captain Andrew Irving sailed from Liverpool on 27 November 1790.[lower-alpha 1] He started acquiring slaves on 7 February 1791, first at some unknown port in the Bight of Benin, and then at Lagos, Onim.[2] Irwin died on 2 March 1791.[3] Orange Grove sailed from Africa on 28 May.[2] She was under the command of Captain John K. Williams when she arrived in the West Indies. She arrived at Cartagena, Colombia on 29 July with 230 captives. She landed some there and then sailed on to Havana where she landed the rest. She sailed for Liverpool on 24 October and arrived back at Liverpool on 8 December.[2] She was an Irwing's command when she arrived at Liverpool from Savannah. She had left Liverpool with 16 crew members and had suffered two crew deaths on her voyage.[2]

2nd voyage transporting enslaved people (1792–1793): Captain William Carrol sailed from Liverpool on 25 February 1792.[4] Captain Carrol died on 5 August.[5] Orange Grove arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 28 December with 236 captives. She left Kingston on 1 February 1793 and arrived back at Liverpool on 30 March.[4] She was under Captain William Lawson's command when she stopped at Beaumaris on her way home. She had left Liverpool with 25 crew members and she had suffered three crew deaths on her voyage.[4]

Orange Grove made no more voyages transporting enslaved people. Instead, she sailed as a West Indiaman, i.e., directly between Great Britain ad the West Indies.

Lloyd's List reported in September 1794 that a French squadron on its way to Guadeloupe had captured Orange Grove, Henderson, master, and that it was believed that the French had taken her there with them.[6]

• Behrendt, Stephen D. (1990). "The Captains in the British slave trade from 1785 to 1807" (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 140.