1/1200 G.N. Sanders Ironclad Ram

Contract for 6 of these approved by the Confederate Congress 19/04/1862 with G.
N. Sanders to be built in England, but not consummated. The guns were mounted in a short
casemate amidships. An interesting design reminiscent of certain French ships in the later
years of the 19th Century they were intended by J. L. Porter to be capable of carrying cargo,
and fight their way through the blockade, as well as to act as commerce raiders, the weight
calculations were almost certainly wrong, meaning they would not be able to carry cargo in
fighting trim. Some thought was apparently given to trying to get these constructed in the
South, but nothing came of the idea.

Information provided by J.W. Wallis