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Titanic
First Class Passenger
Member # 3467

posted 06-22-2003 10:28 PM

Was there ever a five funnel ship? and what was first four funnel ship?

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cruiseny
First Class Passenger
Member # 2928

posted 06-22-2003 11:13 PM

There has never been a five-funneled liner though perhaps some other sort of ship has had five?

The first four-funneled ship was KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE circa 1897. Last was WINDSOR CASTLE in 1922.

See History's Fourteen Four-Funneled Liners at Great Ships (a great site ).

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Ðraikar
First Class Passenger
Member # 1153

posted 06-22-2003 11:22 PM

There was a five funnel ship named Great Eastern, here is a photo

from this page

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Ðraikar
First Class Passenger
Member # 1153

posted 06-22-2003 11:27 PM

Another grate page for Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is my page, I have a review of her HERE

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cruiseny
First Class Passenger
Member # 2928

posted 06-22-2003 11:28 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ðraikar:
There was a five funnel ship named Great Eastern, here is a photo

Gosh, I've looked at pictures of her a thousand times and it never occurred to me to count the funnels!

I suppose if asked I'd have said she had four but I never really thought about it.

Now I really feel silly .

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Ðraikar
First Class Passenger
Member # 1153

posted 06-22-2003 11:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cruiseny:
Gosh, I've looked at pictures of her a thousand times and it never occurred to me to count the funnels!
I suppose if asked I'd have said she had four but I never really thought about it.
Now I really feel silly .

She lost a funnel latter in her career so maybe you seen her as a 4 funneled ship

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Brian_O
First Class Passenger
Member # 3910

posted 06-23-2003 12:05 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Ðraikar:
There was a five funnel ship named Great Eastern

Having seen many photos of the Great Eastern with 4 funnels and then seeing this one, I looked it up in volume 1 of Kludas' "Great Passenger Ships of the World" and noticed a glaring error which had hitherto escaped my attention.

Kludas shows a number of photos. The first is virtually identical to Draikar's and clearly shows 5 funnels. The subsequent ones all show 4 including one taken in 1886.

The caption to the 2nd photo which shows 4 funnels reads: "The Great Eastern after her fitting out as a cable-layer in 1865. The fourth funnel has been removed"

For 1864 the text has the following entry: "Jul: The Great Eastern towed to Sheerness for fitting out as a cable-layer. At this time her fourth funnel and the boiler beneath were removed."

So, even Arnold Kludas miscounted. Or was it the translators? As for myself, it took me over a quarter of a century to notice the error.

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cruiseny
First Class Passenger
Member # 2928

posted 06-23-2003 08:24 AM

Aah... The mystery is solved!

Most of her life she was a cable-layer, which means most of the photographs of her would presumably be with four funnels...

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