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Sadly I can't add anything to Corey's comments above. the historic assumption is that Anderson was constructing her to John Luke Porter's plan, in which case she was another CSS Nashville. What happened at her launch, whether she fell off the ways, or broke her back is lost in the mists of time now.
Interestingly in light of subsequent Union reports on the Nashille having been hogbraced, Admiral Franklin Buchanan was extremely pleased with her, she was not with him in the action at Fts Morgan and Gaines because she had not received all her armour, nor her ordnance. What armour she did have was taken from CSS Baltic.
I have serious doubts about the ability of the sponsons to carry the projected 4" iron anyway, I think the angled faces were far too "fussy" and would have imposed too much weight outboard. I suspect that, if the ship had been taken to completion, a much simpler scheme would have been substituted.
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