[1] Granville Sharp acquired Lapwing to facilitate the work of the St George's Bay Company in providing a safe haven for destitute Africans in Sierra Leone and elsewhere.

[2] Lapwing herself was in the "condemned hold", a location in Wapping, London where ships seized for smuggling were held before Customs disposed of them.

She was at Bance Island when the enslaving ship Duke of Buccleugh arrived in June 1791 carrying as passengers Dr. Alexander Falconbridge, his wife Anna Maria, and brother William, of the Clapham Sect and the Anti-Slavery Society, who had come out with the intent of reorganising the failed settlement of freed slaves in Granville Town, Sierra Leone.

[4] On the return journey in 1791 Lapwing brought back the Falconbridges and carried the Temne prince John Naimbanna to London.

[6] Lapwing reappeared in 1799 with W. Cubbon, master, J.J. Bacon, owner, place of building Malden, and trade Bristol - Martinique.