How did they used to make masts on ships?

Question

Like on ships of the liine like H.M.S. Victory, how did they even find 200+ foot trees in the ammount they were used, especially ones that straight?

do you know?

Answer 1

Also certain trees grow very tall and straight and very quickly.  One of those is the Lombardi poplar, which was brought to parts of North America hundreds of years ago specifically so that the European explorers would have trees on this side of the Atlantic that would work for ship masts.

Answer 2

There were built of of several tree trunks, joined together by an overlapping joint.

Answer 3

um....

i think they put big trunks together....hence the big metal thingies around them at random points

redwood trees can get that tall, but they dont have thoes in europe