77232 – Venus (1775 – 1775) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 77232

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Venus

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 236.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1775

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1775

Arrival Location: London

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Jamaica, port unspecified

Number embarked: 321

Number disembarked: 311

Number of deaths: 10

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

LR1776<>Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1764, 1768, 1776, 1778-84, 1786-1787, 1789-1808 (all published in London)., ADM7/100<>British National Archives (Kew), Admiralty, BT6/3,84<>TNA (Kew, London), LList, 7 Feb 1775<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), Lambert,68,311-38<>Lambert, Sheila (ed.), House of Commons Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth Century, 145 vols. (Wilmington, DE, 1975)., T70/1541<>BNA (Kew) (), Berington acct bk<>Record Office (Worcester, UK) Berington Family Collection, b705: 24/980, Account book of slaves, 1774-5 (Apollo), ADM68/203,168v<>British National Archives (Kew), Admiralty

77232 – Venus (1775 – 1775)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (3)

P_10433_0377 - George Smith

P_10433_1636 - Thomas King of Stamford Hill

P_10433_2782 - William Camden