BBC R4 Documentary - 'The Trees Of Trafalgar' sp7
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BBC R4 Documentary - 'The Trees Of Trafalgar' Presented by Paul Evans Broadcast October 24, 2005 Coded from tape at 128/44.1 BBC Blurb Paul Evans visits the woods of England and Spain that provided the timber - 3,700 trees, each possibly over a hundred years old - for a 72 gun war ship. In the Battle of Trafalgar, 27 of Nelson's ships were pitched against 32 of the French and Spanish coalition force. A lot of trees. How were the trees chosen for ship building? What carpentry went into making a 3000 ton wooden ship with multiple decks and many masts? Paul Evans looks into this complex form of naval engineering.