naval stores

naval stores, term initially applied to the cordage, mask, resin, tar, and timber used in building wooden sailing ships; it now designates the products obtained from the pine tree, e.g., pine oil, pitch, rosin, tar, and turpentine. These products fall into two classes, those obtained from living pines and those from dead pines. Most of the naval stores used in the world are produced in the SE United States and in S Europe. Naval stores are now used largely in the manufacture of soap, paint, varnish, shoe polish, lubricants, linoleum, and roofing material.

Naval Stores is a broad term which originally applied to the resin-based components used in building and maintaining wooden sailing ships, a category which includes cordage, mask, turpentine, rosin, pitch (resin) and tar. In modern usage, the term applies to all products derived from pine sap, which are used to manufacture soap, paint, varnish, shoe polish, lubricants, linoleum, and roofing material.

History

Naval stores were a large part of the colonial Carolina economy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Sawn lumber, shingles, and staves especially buoyed the northeastern Carolina economy.

See also

• Shipbuilding
• Naval stores industry
• Bark hack

Footnotes

External links

• http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/history/naval_stores.htm
• http://www.maritime.org/conf/conf-kaye-tar.htm
• http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/V6460E/v6460e04.htm
• http://www.hchsonline.org/places/turpentine.html
• http://www.unctv.org/exploringNC/episode308.html