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- 1971 . Forest and Seapower , CHA/E series) and from the yard to the Board (N.M.M. This paper has been written almost entirely from original sources in the National Maritime Museum or the Public Record Office. Most valuable have been the letters and orders from the Navy Board to the Chatham yard officers (N.M.M., CHA-B series). Correspondence to and from other yards in the Public Records Office (P.R.O., ADM/106) was also used. Apart from the usual authorities on timber such as R. G. Albion, (Cambridge, Mass. 1926) and A. J. Holland, Ships of British Oak. (Newton Abbot, a number of contemporary works were also useful. These included Gabriel Snodgrass, Letters to the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (London 1797), John Burridge, The Naval Dry Rot (London, 1824) and John Simmons, Naval Stores of the Admiralty (London, 1719). The various Parliamentary Committees of the period on the Navy, Woods and Finance were invaluable. I would like to acknowledge the help given to me by Dr R. J. B. Knight of the National Maritime Museum in the preparation of this paper