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Tall funnels help draft boilers of smoke and gas from combustion and keep the particulate farther away from the vessel itself. Forced draft boilers eventually made funnel height less of an issue. Comparison to the Pargny is apples to oranges since for over a third of its commercial life its powerplant was a Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton RB-821 single-acting, two-cycle, 3000-bhp Diesel, The earliest Scandinavian motorships didn't even have traditional funnels since the engine exhaust could be ventilated quite simply by a simple exhaust pipe. Aesthetics eventually played a role and most motorships received a funnel that also included silencers while announcing the owner's livery, and even contained dog kennels on passenger vessels, or the radio shack or additional deck storage.

Guest wrote: ↑March 9, 2024, 12:38 pm Speaking of old USS boats, any news on what actually caught fire on the Mississagi (ex- George A Sloan)?

Wonder why it ended up at the SOO instead of MRC.

I may be mistaken, but from my vantage point, it looked like the fire was in the area of the old engine room. Old oil and lubricants, etc. may have been ignited accidentally.

Speaking of old USS boats, any news on what actually caught fire on the Mississagi (ex- George A Sloan)?

Wonder why it ended up at the SOO instead of MRC.

Why did some of the old uss boats such as the Eugene j buffington have a tall and skinny smoke stack and some of the newer uss boats such as the eugene j pargny have a short and fatter smoke stack?