An item referred to tidings received from Denmark reporting the recent visit of Mr. Napier who was believed signed a contract with the Danish cabinet for building the first Danish floating battery.(1)
Note
1. The Rolf Krake laid down at the shipyard of R. Napier&Sons, Glasgow, Scotland, launched on 6 May a year later, commissioned on 1 July and finally decommissioned on 29 June 1907 and the same year broken up. This turret ironclad with a displacement of 1.360 tonnes had as dimensions 57 x 11,6 x 3,5 metres and an armament consisting pf 4-60pd 150Cnt guns. The armour consisted of a 11,4cnm thick belt and as similar thick armour protected the gun turret. The steam engine provided 700 ihp allowing a speed of just 8 knots and a range of 1.150 nautical miles. Like the other ironclads in that period still provided with masts and schooner-rigged. Designed by the British naval engineer Cowper Phipps Cowes. The Dutch newspaper Bredasche Courant dated 28 February 1864 reported that just four men of her crew were wounded on the 18th during the battle off Eckernsund. She received around 100 hits of which 36 pierced the bulwarks bur hull, turret, guns and engine were not damaged. The Middelburgsche Courant dated 26 March 1864 referred to a tiding from Lubeck that Japanese officers after visiting the Danish war front came back on the 16th from Copenhagen underway towards The Hague, Netherlands. Among the places they sighted was a visit to the Rolf Krake included.
Note
1. The Rolf Krake laid down at the shipyard of R. Napier&Sons, Glasgow, Scotland, launched on 6 May a year later, commissioned on 1 July and finally decommissioned on 29 June 1907 and the same year broken up. This turret ironclad with a displacement of 1.360 tonnes had as dimensions 57 x 11,6 x 3,5 metres and an armament consisting pf 4-60pd 150Cnt guns. The armour consisted of a 11,4cnm thick belt and as similar thick armour protected the gun turret. The steam engine provided 700 ihp allowing a speed of just 8 knots and a range of 1.150 nautical miles. Like the other ironclads in that period still provided with masts and schooner-rigged. Designed by the British naval engineer Cowper Phipps Cowes. The Dutch newspaper Bredasche Courant dated 28 February 1864 reported that just four men of her crew were wounded on the 18th during the battle off Eckernsund. She received around 100 hits of which 36 pierced the bulwarks bur hull, turret, guns and engine were not damaged. The Middelburgsche Courant dated 26 March 1864 referred to a tiding from Lubeck that Japanese officers after visiting the Danish war front came back on the 16th from Copenhagen underway towards The Hague, Netherlands. Among the places they sighted was a visit to the Rolf Krake included.
