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• Heart of oak, the British bulwark : To which is added, an appendix: Shewing, The Author's Sentiments, how the present Navy of England may be preserved, so as to endure more than double the Number of Years it will continue in the present Mode of laying up Ships. By Roger Fisher, Shipwright, of Liverpool
  by: Fisher, Roger
  Published: (1772)
• Heart of Oak, the British bulwark : Shewing, I. Reasons for paying greater attention to the propagation of Oak. Timber than has hitherto been manifested. II. The insufficiency of the present laws to prevent the want or scarcity of that commodity. III. The testimony of some of the most eminent timber merchants, shipwrights, &c. proving not only the great decrease, but the proportionate decrease for thirty or forty years last past, of the full grown timber fit for the navy or merchants service, in the principal timber counties throughout the Kingdom. IV. That the neglect of planting, if not immediately remedied, will be the ruin of this Kingdom. V. The author's opinion what methods would be most effectual to prevent this calamity. Humbly offered to His Majesty and the Parliament, as well as to all proprietors of land in Great-Britain. By Roger Fisher, shipwright of Liverpool
  by: Fisher, Roger
  Published: (1763)
• Methods proposed for decreasing the consumption of timber, in the Navy : by means of prolonging the duration of our ships of war; with observations on fastening ships with iron knees: to which are added, some general remarks on the present timbered state of the kingdom; in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. John, Earl of Chatham, First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. Together with a letter addressed to the honorable commissioners of the Navy, on the way of keeping, seasoning, and converting timber, before it is used in ship-building. With observations on the sap of oak trees. By Tho. Nichols, purveyor of the Navy for Portsmouth dock-yard
  by: Nichols, Thomas
  Published: (1793)
• Methods proposed for decreasing the consumption of timber in the navy by means of prolonging the duration of our ships of war : with observations on fastening ships with iron knees
  by: Nichols, Thomas
  Published: (1793)
• Observations on the propagation and management of oak trees in general : but more immediately applying to His Majesty's New-Forest, in Hampshire, with a view of making that extensive tract of land more productive of timber, for the use of the Navy
  by: Nichols, Thomas
  Published: (1791)