What type of wood is Dantzic timber and where did it come from?

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This might help you......http://chestofbooks.com/architecture/Building-Construction-2/Timber-Varieties-In-General-Use.html

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Baltic pine, often but not always imported from the city of Danzic. One variety was long known as 'deal'. Do not confuse with pitch pine whish was a different timber but also imported from the Baltic ports.

Dantzic timber is any timber that was exported from the Baltic port of Danzig, now known as Gdansk.
Gdansk is on the mouth of the Motlawa river and thus had good water access to the large inland areas of N.E. Europe.
Timber species exported included softwood from various Spruces, Pines and Firs. Hardwoods included Oak, Beech and Ash.
"Pitch Pine" is a generic term for some of the Tropical/ sub-Tropical Pine species such as P. caribaea which have a very high resin content and thus are thought more resistant to moisture decay and insects. I am not aware that this trade occurred in Gdansk.
Danzig timber became very important to Great Britain after about 1575 when sources of home grown timber became more scarce. Hobhouse comments that the last ship load of structural timber to be exported from Britain was in 1588. He and others attribute this shortage of timber (both for structures and fuel) as one of the main incentives to adopt and seek coal, as well as importing timber from N.E.Europe.
See:- Hobhouse. Seeds of Wealth. ISBN 0 330 48812 0

Thanks Gwyn for correcting an error that I have been labouring under for many years. You are quite right - Pitch pine does not come from the Baltic. It comes from southern states of USA and from Honduras: 'Pinus palustris ... 40 to 45 lbs per cubic foot ... dense straight grain and golden colour with disinctive brown growth ring' (entry from a timber supplier's catalogue at home - which I had read but not absorbed!). Off topic I know, but I had to acknowledge my error and thank Gwyn for correcting it.

Thanks for the info Gwyn.

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