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Laurent Barbé
Laurent Barbé was a French shipbuilder born about 1696. He came to the attention of Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe,Count Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe was appointed head of the Danish navy in 1735 when in 1739 the newly formed Danish Naval Construction Commission was seeking a replacement chief designer and shipbuilder. Barbé enjoyed Danneskiold's patronage and protection for some six years but fell out of favour when Danneskiold retired from the Construction Commission. Personal life Nothing is known of Laurent Barbé's personal or professional life before Copenhagen. He married Brigitte Agnes Mariane Schenck, some thirty years his junior, the daughter of a senior officer in royal lifeguard regiment. Shipbuilder to the Royal Danish Navy The design of Barbé's first ship of the line for Denmark (which would become ''Elephanten'' 1741) was produced by Barbé as part of a competition between him and another French shipbuilder, du Chemin, for the position of the new master shipbuilder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe
Frederik Danneskjold-Samsøe (1 November 1703 – 18 July 1778) was a Danish politician, minister, admiral, chief of the Danish marine and count of the Barony Marselisborg. In his time Danneskjold-Samsøe held numerous public offices and was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog, Order of the Elephant and the Ordre de l'Union Parfaite and was made Chamberlain. In 1767 he was ousted from his positions and spent the rest of his life focused on philanthropy and socializing, in part with Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg. Biography Frederik Danneskjold-Samsøe was born at Assendrup Manor in 1703, the son of Christian Gyldenløve and Dorothea Krag. At nine years old, he and his brother Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe were sent to England where he stayed until he was 16. He became interested in all things related to ships, from regulations, to building them, to their inner mechanical workings. After he left England he spent some time in Paris before he moved to Holland to pursue maritime stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ship Of The Line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two columns of opposing warships maneuvering to volley fire with the cannons along their broadsides. In conflicts where opposing ships were both able to fire from their broadsides, the opponent with more cannons firingand therefore more firepowertypically had an advantage. Since these engagements were almost invariably won by the heaviest ships carrying more of the most powerful guns, the natural progression was to build sailing vessels that were the largest and most powerful of their time. From the end of the 1840s, the introduction of steam power brought less dependence on the wind in battle and led to the construction of screw-driven wooden-hulled ships of the line; a number of purely sail-powered ships were converted to this propulsion mech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HDMS Elephanten (1741)
HDMS ''Elephanten'' Fate ''Elephanten'' was decommissioned in 1760 and broken up the same year. Notes References Citations *Nielsen,Dansk Militærhistorie Website"Major Danish Warships Built at the Holmen Shipyard 1692-1744" (in English)Skibregister(den sorte registrand) for Record Cards of Danish Ships (in Danish)Royal Danish Naval Museum Details, drawings and models for some of the named ships are available here. *Hans Christian Bjerg Laurent Barbe i Dansk Biografisk Leksikon 3rd. edition, Gyldendal 1979–84. (accessed 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuverability, intended to be used in scouting, escort and patrol roles. The term was applied loosely to ships varying greatly in design. In the second quarter of the 18th century, the 'true frigate' was developed in France. This type of vessel was characterised by possessing only one armed deck, with an unarmed deck below it used for berthing the crew. Late in the 19th century (British and French prototypes were constructed in 1858), armoured frigates were developed as powerful ironclad warships, the term frigate was used because of their single gun deck. Later developments in ironclad ships rendered the frigate designation obsolete and the term fell out of favour. During the Second World War the name 'frigate' was reintroduced to des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HDMS Elephanten (1773)
HDMS ''Elephanten'' (1773) The ornamentation on this ship is depicted at the Royal Danish Naval Museum's websitElephanten by clicking "vis" and more directlhere was an 18th-century ship-of-the-line in the Dano-Norwegian navy, built at Nyholm in Copenhagen to a design by the Frenchman Laurent Barbé. Ship builder Laurent Barbé was appointed to the Nyholm shipyards when his predecessor Knud Benstrup was sacked in 1740. As an experienced shipbuilder he produced technical drawings for a 76-gun ship-of-the-line which was built and saw service as HDMS ''Elephant'' (1741). He was reticent about revealing his construction methods to the Danish Naval Construction Commission but as a protege of the Count of Samsøe he survived in his position. Barbé also designed a frigate, a slightly smaller ship-of-the-line (of 70 guns) and a royal yacht. ''Elephanten'' was judged to be an excellent ship when it entered service, and the technical drawings became a standard for future similar ships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century Danish Shipbuilders
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported slavery. The Industrial Revolution began during mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who expand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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