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If I remember correctly quite a lot of British lumber used for shipbuilding from the Elizabethan era on came from Ireland, which was comparatively well forested
by DoughnutHole 4y ago
If I remember correctly quite a lot of British lumber used for shipbuilding from the Elizabethan era on came from Ireland, which was comparatively well forested in the Middle Ages.
You don't need natively forestry so much when you've a subject neighbour to pillage.
- barry-cotter 4y agoReliance on Baltic timber was also why England was so keen to ensure no one power controlled the entrance to the Baltic.