Shipbuilding and coastal trading thrived between 1824 and 1872.

Tyrtov, ordered to enforce state monopoly on coastal trading, distributed to local Chukchis printed leaflets addressed to foreign merchants.

Resentment against the British authorities grew: Britain was seen as excessively profiting from the thriving coastal trading and farming occurring in the territory.

A Tartane or tartan was a small ship used both as a fishing ship and for coastal trading in the Mediterranean.

Until the advent of the railroad in 1848, Darien remained a small, rural community of about 1,000 farmers, shoemakers, fishermen, and merchants engaged in coastal trading.

Focuses on pre-1930's vehicles used in coastal trading.

For centuries, the main industries were maritime: whaling, coastal trading, fishing and shipbuilding.

Around this time there is evidence of coastal trading with Arabs, with the South East Asian region, and even with China.

Some slaves were captured through raids and kidnapping, although most were bought through coastal trading by the Europeans.

With the growth of the postwar economy, the town became a prosperous place: the seat of Hancock County and a center for shipbuilding and coastal trading.