Thanks to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are able to read books that are some times for decades no longer available for the public for several reasons. That's quite a pity while these books contains useful information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor accessible.
Dealing with the use of teak Day supplied the next information.
P. 550: The superior kind (Cullen Tekka Mal.) grows in the forests, where,
p. 551: “the soil is not deep. On the Ghauts, it is cirved, hard and knotty, and very like the English Oak, its weight is greater than the above mentioned species, and its durability more considerable. The following is a list of the first British Men of War, built of this material. Ships of the Line Minden, Comwallis, Melville, Malabar, Wellesley, Ganges, Asia, Bombay, Calcutta, Hastings. Frigates Salsette, Amphitrite, Trincomalee, Seringapatam, Madagascar, Andromeda, Alligator, Samarang, Herald. Sloops Victor, Camelcon, Sphynx, Cochin.
Op to 1814, the Cochin and Travancore Sircar teaks were excluded from the Bombay dockyards, and had tot be sent to Bengal for sale, where there was a great demand from them.”
Source
Francis Day. The land of the Permauls: or Cochin, its past and its present. Madras, 1863.
Dealing with the use of teak Day supplied the next information.
P. 550: The superior kind (Cullen Tekka Mal.) grows in the forests, where,
p. 551: “the soil is not deep. On the Ghauts, it is cirved, hard and knotty, and very like the English Oak, its weight is greater than the above mentioned species, and its durability more considerable. The following is a list of the first British Men of War, built of this material. Ships of the Line Minden, Comwallis, Melville, Malabar, Wellesley, Ganges, Asia, Bombay, Calcutta, Hastings. Frigates Salsette, Amphitrite, Trincomalee, Seringapatam, Madagascar, Andromeda, Alligator, Samarang, Herald. Sloops Victor, Camelcon, Sphynx, Cochin.
Op to 1814, the Cochin and Travancore Sircar teaks were excluded from the Bombay dockyards, and had tot be sent to Bengal for sale, where there was a great demand from them.”
Source
Francis Day. The land of the Permauls: or Cochin, its past and its present. Madras, 1863.
