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Did modern navies still use wooden-hulled warships?

The answer places residual wooden construction in small craft and composite hulls rather than in contemporary capital ships.

Question

Were wooden-hulled warships still in service with modern navies?

Short answer

Some small vessels still combined teak and iron in their hulls, but this was not typical of major modern warships.

Notes

A few vessels still used teak together with iron in their hull construction, but these were mostly very small ships. The survival of wood was therefore a niche material choice or legacy practice, not evidence that major modern fleets still relied on wooden battle ships. This short exchange helps separate composite construction from the popular image of an all-wooden sailing warship surviving unchanged into the dreadnought era.