Trial is launched.

(Aug.) It was built at Nehemiah Bourne’s wharf in the North End. The first full-size ship built in Boston, it is credited with launching Boston as a center of foreign trade. Under the command of Capt. Captain Thomas Graves, it initiates the first of a number of triangle trade routes, carrying a cargo of codfish to Bilbao, Spain, that is exchanged for Merino wool, that is then exchanged for manufactured goods in England, then returning via the West Indies with a cargo of wine, fruit, oil, iron and wood on March 23, 1644. Soon, according to Mark Peterson, “In terms of its economy, the pursuit of overseas trade was Boston, or at least an indispensable part of it, as necessary to its survival as tobacco was to Virginia or sugar was to Barbados.”