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The store of timber maintained at Woolwich Dock- 
yard suitable for ship-building was as follows, viz. -— 
TABLE IV. 
Foreign timber, 
In the years English Oak. | or Substitutes Total. 
for Oak. 
Loads. Loads, Loads. 
1840 1,591 936 2,527 
1845 1,029 2,196 3,945 
1850 1,259 3,693 4,952 
1855 1,868 4,590 6,464 
1860 857 0,977 7,834 
1865 5,490 14,077 19,507 
The smallest quantity of English Oak at that yard 
at any one time within the thirty years ending in 1867 
was 857 loads in 1860, and the largest 5,490 loads in 
1865; while the smallest stock of foreign timber in 
store for use as substitutes for Oak was 936 in 1840, 
and the largest 16,771 loads in 1863. The smallest store 
of ship-building timber of all kinds held there during 
the same period was 2,356 loads in 1841, and the largest 
21,012 loads in 1863. 
The relative quantities of English Oak and its 
substitutes were kept up at all the yards, in proportion 
to the magnitude of the several naval establishments, 
and in 1860 there was the large quantity of 35,800 loads 
in the various stores, suitable for ship-building, exclusive 
of Elm, Fir, and Pine timber and plank; and this was 
very largely supplemented by later deliveries. 
