Structural limits on long wooden warships

What was the practical maximum length-to-beam ratio for an all-wooden warship?

Wooden ships could be made slightly longer than the best-known ships of the line, but structural reinforcement and rapid deterioration imposed a firm practical limit.

Mary Rose, Victory, and Warrior show that all-wooden hulls reached a practical slenderness limit quite early. Builders could make a wooden frigate somewhat longer, but every extra increment demanded more internal reinforcement. That reinforcement consumed weight without removing the material's structural limits. The unusually short service lives of the longest wooden frigates reveal how little margin remained before iron construction changed the problem.