Did Britain's wooden wall come from Athens?

Is the British wooden wall a reference to the Athenian wooden wall?

The Athenian association became plausible later, but the British phrase appears first as a practical description of the fleet.

The British wooden wall began as a descriptive phrase for the fleet. An Athenian connection was then used to give it a classical pedigree, although the point at which that association entered the expression is uncertain. Some early users were unlikely to have intended a learned Greek allusion. Greek names for ships therefore do not by themselves establish a direct classical origin for the phrase.