Solicitor General

Solicitor General was launched in Bermuda in 1785. She came to England circa 1794 and first sailed as a West Indiaman but then new owners in 1795 employed her as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was wrecked on the coast of North Africa on her first voyage on her way to acquire captives. Her crew were themselves enslaved, not being freed until mid-1797. Career Solicitor General first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1794. In August 1794 Lloyd's List reported that Solicitor General was sailing from Antigua to Liverpool when she had put into St Kitts in a leaky condition. Captain Thomas Smith sailed from Liverpool on 17 July 1795. In 1795, 79 vessels sailed from English ports, bound for Africa to acquire and transport enslaved people; 59 of these vessels sailed from Liverpool.