coasting trade

"All these are involved in what we call the coasting trade," he added.

She apparently had been a scourge of the British coasting trade.

I'm in the coasting trade, and rarely out of sight of land.

In coasting trades up to thirty tons a man was considered reasonable.

Most schooners constructed here were used either by the coasting trade or fisheries.

At the same time, barges were taking over the cargo coasting trade on the short routes.

In the first two or three years of Nisbet's career, all the coasting trade was done by sailing ships.

It comprehends both the inland and the coasting trade.

When such restrictions are imposed upon the inland trade, the coasting trade, we may believe, cannot be left very free.

Historically, many developed English speaking countries used the British term 'coasting trade', and its usage remains.

After the war a number of VICs came into the coasting trade.

The plate fleet never appears; the coasting trade along the Main is tiny-most of the vessels are foreign smugglers.

The coasting trade is also considerable.

She is a documented work vessel of five net tons, licensed to carry six or less passengers for hire in the coasting trade.

It was engaged in the coasting trade between the various ports of Australia and New Zealand.

The town suffered greatly during the War of 1812 as the British blockade destroyed the coasting trade on which it depended.

Involved through his business with the coasting trade, John became the port officer in 1831 and alcalde for Brazoria the next year.

Shipbuilders annually produced three to four vessels, many for the coasting trade, exporting cordwood, lumber and fish.

The puffers developed from the gabbert, small single masted sailing barges which took most of the coasting trade.

After leaving the VOC, he threw himself upon the European coasting trade, especially in grain.

He had varied business interests, speculating in land, and investing with other colonists in a ship involved in the coasting trade.

Equally serious was the union's old bugbear of rapid membership turnover in all ports except those without substantial interests in the coasting trade.

Shortly after his twentieth birthday, he bought a sailing ship, the barque Willowbank, which he employed in the coasting trade.

However, the coming of the railway actually put paid to these ideas by eroding the local coasting trade which was hit by severe gales in the 1870s.

With some exceptions among coasting trades like the East Coast coal trade, deep-sea sailors were overwhelmingly young men, in Britain and in all other countries.