Now then Teriblunder. I've checked the map and Waterford and Cobh are still on the south coast Map to help you

I haven't mentioned the other ports so I didn't confuse you.

Now lets have a look at "your" ships firstly when you said Sorland I presume you meant Sorlandet, fancy not even remembering the name of your ship, that's not much use when your pissed in a foreign port, Length 210 feet 891 tonnes a pretty big ship for the time had it been around. Christian Radich 205 feet 1050 tonnes. Stratsraad Lekhkuhl 321 feet 1516 tonnes. Now shall we compare this with ship like the Jeannie Johnson 154 feet 518 tonnes, considerably smaller.

Now you may recall that some 60 years earlier the First Fleet had sailed all the way to Australia and guess what there weren't even any ports for them to land at.

And you are suggesting the British Fleet could have managed to land supplies on the southern and western coats of Ireland. I'll leave it to the good people to make their own minds up about that.