Oracabessa first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1811 with S. Beatty, master, Moxon, owner, and trade Hull–London, followed by London–Jamaica.

British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC.

[3] Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 13 January 1818 that Oracabessa had arrived in Portsmouth, having sailed from Jamaica on 11 November 1817.

They got through the breakers, though they frequently had to bail out the longboat, and after about an hour and a half after leaving Oracabessa they reached Kedgeree.

In the afternoon Captain Carmichael, the second mate, the pilot, and the remaining crew members fashioned a raft with which they safely reached shore.