10 дек. 2021 г. · Oaks were in high demand to supply building material for naval fleets. And to provide the massive timbers required for large warships, the trees needed to be ...

14 июн. 2017 г. · A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

21 янв. 2024 г. · Sweden's largest contiguous oak forest grows on Visingsö, a long and narrow island in the southern half of Lake Vättern (created, it's said, by ...

15 февр. 2022 г. · At the zenith of Horatio Nelson's navy in the late-1700s into the 1800s, it took about 4,000 oak trees, or up to 40 hectares of forest, to build ...

13 янв. 2021 г. · They were planted between larch and spruce so that they would grow tall and straight, which means the navy oak forests are rather unusual. A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees ... TIL in 1831 the Swedish Navy planted over 300,000 oak trees ... Другие результаты с сайта www.reddit.com

29 окт. 2020 г. · The US Navy maintains "Constitution Grove," where a forest of white oaks are grown for the sole purpose of restoring and refitting the USS Constitution.

The wood of the live oak trees is very dense, strong, and among the heaviest of American woods. Live oak lumber has a particular grain (texture) which creates ...

18 окт. 2023 г. · The history of oak trees in shipbuilding is deeply intertwined with the maritime heritage of Britain's Royal Navy.

Fleet oaks refer to the oak trees that are planted for the soul purpose of using it to build a fleet of ships. The fear of a shortage in suitable fleet oak ...