The New Haven Colony in its first years has has ships capable only of coastal travel.

Trade with England is done with the Massachusetts Bay Colony as the middleman.

The Colony had in 1645 built an eighty-ton ocean going ship to be captained by Lamberton.

Economic disaster strikes in 1646, when the town sends its first fully loaded ship of local goods back to England.

This ship never reaches the Old World, and its disappearance stymies New Haven's development in the face of the rising trade power of Boston and New Amsterdam.