What type of wood was used to construct the first Naval Ship? Also where did you find this answer?? HELP!!?

Answer 1

The first naval ships were probably galleys, perhaps made in 2000 - 1500 BC. The Minoans and Mycenaeans had warships. The Greeks in the Iliad had them.

As a primary means of motive power was rowing it would have been important for these ships to be light, so it is highly likely that they were built of softwood, not hardwood. Some sort of pine, perhaps?

Answer 2

Seapower has always been an important component of English Military capability. If one thinks back to the great days of sail one would obviously recall such famous ships as 'The Victory, (Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar) or perhaps the 'Mary Rose', Henry VIII magnificent but ill-fated warship.

Much earlier in time, by 1417, King Henry V owned some thirty ships employed on regular patrols from Harfleur and Honfleur which ensured unparalleled supremacy in the English Channel. This created a great deal of work for shipwrights, carpenters and masons in many ports in England.

One such vessel was the Grace Dieu, the fourth of Henry's great royal ships. When she was launched in 1418 with the blessing of the Bishop of Bangor she had already cost £289 and had taken 'Tens of Men' over two years to build. Her construction had consumed 2,735 Oaks, 14 Ash trees, 1,145 Beeches and 12 Elms, from the royal New Forest (Hampshire) and the neighbouring monastic forests.

The Grace Dieu would see much service in the King's Navy as a patrol ship in the Channel under the command of the Earl of Devon.

Answer 3

The first naval ship was probably Phoenician and made of reeds.

Arguably it could've been a hide coracle - but I'd personally say that's just a boat not a ship.

Answer 4

particular, Naval ships have lifeboats and liferafts. They (the rafts) are plenty much less complicated to regulate, stow, and deploy whilst mandatory. although, now and back in conflict, a deliver is so unexpectedly and heavily broken that it explodes and sinks till now each physique has a great gamble to flee. Your pal curiously has purely concentrated on those kinds of failures.

Answer 5

depends what you mean by the first naval ship........remember, without ships to transport cargo, you'd have to use what wood was growing locally......

so if you go back to say the Phoenicians, who were based out of what is today Lebanon, you would use Lebanese cedar...strong, light, rot resistant....


or as another poster said about the Dover England ship. well, you have all this wonderful oak growing in your backyard in 3000 BC England....

Answer 6

Oak.

Oak was used for the frames of Royal Navy ships over hundreds of years and for the Dover bronze age boat over 3550 years ago.

Answer 7

gopher wood and that is in the Bible, the first ship ever built was the Ark, in which Noah and his family, all th animals survived th flood.

Answer 8

For which navy? If you mean in general, I doubt anyone knows the answer.