HDMS Elephanten [3][Note 1] was an 18th-century ship-of-the-line in the Dano-Norwegian navy that was built at Nyholmen in Copenhagen by Laurent Barbé[4] and ornamentation by J.Wiedewelt.

[1] The design of the ship-of-the-line which would become Elephanten was produced by Barbé as part of a competition between him and another French shipbuilder, du Chemin, before the appointment of the new master shipbuilder to the Danish fleet.

Barbé's employment dated from 6 May 1740,[4] by which time construction of the new ship had already started!

In the end, Elephanten proved to be an excellent ship and the technical drawings set the standard for future work.

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