Live oak in the age of wooden ships was the best available ship timber it is strong and dense and more importantly it grows in gentle curves that are almost analogous to the frames in a ship's structure. So it's really excellent material for shipbuilding.
Quotes about shipbuilding (4 Quotes)
The admiral has talked about a stable plan. I think he's right on when he talks about it. Stability is something we haven't had in the shipbuilding industry.
If the Navy experiences difficulties in one or more of these areas, the number of ships procured in coming years may fall short of the quantities shown in the Navy's shipbuilding plan, and future force levels may be lower than the Navy projects.
If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.