Coasting trade

The company's vessels operate under the US Jones Act which reserves domestic waterborne commerce to vessels that are US owned, built and crewed and the Canada Coasting Trade Act which reserves domestic waterborne commerce to Canadian registered and crewed vessels that operate between Canadian ports.

Vessels of this sort, made of local oak, had long been employed in the coasting trade that linked together the ports of south-west England and South Wales.

"Its location in shallow waters, suggest that either the vessel was nearing an intended port-of-call, or else was engaged in a coasting trade, moving products to market over short distances up and down the coast," said a press release from the Department of Antiquities.

Little wonder that the 'Sydney Morning Herald' of the 5th January reported: "It will be seen by the above that the coasting trade, a great portion of which is carried on by steam vessels, is becoming very important, and employs a considerable quantity of both labour and capital.

They were mostly made in Bristol, England, and are found in considerable numbers in sailors" homes, where they were brought as lovers" gifts by seafaring men engaged in the coasting trade.

the overseas and coasting trade. Although they prospered form this strategy, it left them desperately vulnerable to the trade policies which Britain adopted after 1763 and impelled their city into revolutionary leadership while other colonial cities were less adversely affected.