Pencil drawing based on a drawing originally published in Harpers Weekly representing a Confederate ironclad built at Glasgow, Scotland. It should represent the later Danish ironclad Danmark, in my drawing with the Confederate flag, but in reality the ship had a complete different appearance.
She was ordered by the Confederate States of American during the Civil War by their agent lieutenant James H. North on 21 May 1862 when the contract was signed for the building of an armoured frigate by the Clydebank yard of J.&G. Thompson and to be handed over on 1 June 1863. Estimated building costs 190,000 British pound sterling. She was the same year laid down as known as North’s ship (after the men who ordered the building) or just as number 61 although the yard called Santa Maria. But she was not suitable for the Confederate needs which tried to sell her in the summer a year later to the Russian Empire. Finally the yard afraid she would not be allowed by the British government to hand over the ship to the Confederates cancelled that year the contract. The building although continued and on 23 February 1864 was the launching. In that period was she acquired by Denmark due to the so-called second war of Schleswig (1 February-30 October) with Prussia and Austria. The ship was however not completed before the war ended. After she was handed over to Denmark she was commissioned in the Danish Royal navy between June-October 1869. She was in fact a failure due th the extremely high coal consumption and worse performance at sea; Decommissioned on 22 November 1900 was she broken up.
With a displacement of 4,700 tonnes/4,690 long tons were her dimensions 82,29 x 15,25 x 5,94 metres or 270’0”x 50’)’x 19’6”. The steam engine and four boilers supplied 1,000 ihp allowing a speed of just 8 knots. The crew numbered 530 men. The armament while in Confederate States service was to number 20 guns. In Danish service she was 28-60 pdr smoothbore muzzle loaders abd 8-18pdr rifled muzz loaders, in 1865 12-60pdr rifled muzzle loaders and 10-24 rifled muzzle loaders, increased 2 years later with another 2-24pdrs. The armour consisted of a 8,9-11,4cm thick belt while the battery was protected by armour of the same thickness.
