The Quest for Domestic and Colonial Masts and Spars

MASTS imported from the north conferred only one advantage: their quality was excellent. The problem of the French was to acquire these fine northern masts without paying top prices and without incurring the grave strategic disabilities that dependence upon them involved in wartime. The stockpiling...

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Published inForests and French Sea Power pp. 113 - 134
Main Author Bamford, Paul
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto University of Toronto Press 29.05.2015
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Agricultural products
Agriculture
Applied sciences
Armed forces
Biological sciences
Biology
Botany
Businesspeople
Capital costs
Commercial transportation
Dendrology
Economic costs
Economic costs and benefits
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Engineering
Entrepreneurs
Forest products
Forest resources
Forestry
Freight
Freight transport
Labor economics
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Microeconomics
Military science
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Political science
Shipments
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Timber
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Trees
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Summary:MASTS imported from the north conferred only one advantage: their quality was excellent. The problem of the French was to acquire these fine northern masts without paying top prices and without incurring the grave strategic disabilities that dependence upon them involved in wartime. The stockpiling of imported masts, in anticipation of broken wartime communications, offered at least a partial solution to the problem. Stockpiling ofmatérielon a large scale, however, required far-sighted policy executed with determination by consistent naval leadership; it required heavy peacetime investment in the interests of naval preparedness.¹ These requirements were not met in France before
ISBN:1442651628
9781442651623
DOI:10.3138/9781442656550-008