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Blitzo

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Why does it have two smoke stacks spaced so closely together? Rather than trunking the exhaust uptake into a single stack?

Probably some kind of structural or positioning reason or maybe they just designed it that way because it didn't make much difference whether it was one exhaust or two.

I don't think there's any profound reason behind it.
 

delft

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Why does it have two smoke stacks spaced so closely together? Rather than trunking the exhaust uptake into a single stack?
Remember the passenger liner ( which was it, some eighty years ago ) that needed three smoke stacks but the designer or the future owner wanted four so a fake smoke stack was added and IIRC it was use to provide a smoking room.
 

Blitzo

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Remember the passenger liner ( which was it, some eighty years ago ) that needed three smoke stacks but the designer or the future owner wanted four so a fake smoke stack was added and IIRC it was use to provide a smoking room.

I hope you're not suggesting one of the smoke stacks on 901 is there for cosmetic purposes or something but that's a little bit ridiculous...
 

delft

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I hope you're not suggesting one of the smoke stacks on 901 is there for cosmetic purposes or something but that's a little bit ridiculous...
Certainly not. The prospective owner would consider this unacceptable. But there is also an artistic component to the creativity of the naval architect.
 

Richard Santos

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Remember the passenger liner ( which was it, some eighty years ago ) that needed three smoke stacks but the designer or the future owner wanted four so a fake smoke stack was added and IIRC it was use to provide a smoking room.


There was a lot more than one passenger liner that had a fake funnel for appearance sake.

On most of the high prestige 4 stackers and 3 stackers transatlantic liners built 1910-1940, the last stack was fake.
 
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