I've come across a reference in 1654 to a ship built by John Cole shipwright of Ipswich "named the Adventure of Ipswich, of the burthen of three hundred tonns or thereabouts, wherein one (blank) ...

It is only a few years since the bar of the Bay was attempted by vessels of any burthen. Sloops now usually ascend to within a mile of Ballina, and measures are in progress to bring them up to the ...