I'm a very big fan of White Pines. Every lake lined with them has higher water quality. Compare with lakes with a mix of species--especially Eastern Hemlock, and miscellaneous deciduous trees. Just dig down near their shed needles and see the difference made with layers of pine needles.
White Pines are the first trees to for carpentry, the first to return after a forest fire, and the first to be "gotten rid of as 'nuisance trees', dripping sap on my car".
The link doesn't mention it, but such a valuable tree to the Crown was routinely felled on a clear-cut mat of its White Pine neighboring trees to preserve the trunk of the tree from splitting and internal damage. Nonetheless, my neighbors and I have some White Pines that were spared the ax, and
may be old enough to have shaded King George III's Redcoats! (Twelve-foot girth).
This painting shows the size of masts on British "Ships of the Line". This shows Lord Nelson's ship—
HMS Victory—at Trafalgar in 1805.
The "Broad Arrow" appeared on cannons and firearms of British manufacture, at least until WWII.