Re: Titanic Asciis?!

On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 18:05:47 GMT, vjo...@sci.fi (Ville Jouppi) wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:20:34 +0100, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine
><Dev...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>If I recall correctly, of the 4 smokestacks, one was
>>>>>ornamental.. but was it the last one?  I'm not sure...
>>>>
>>>>On every photo and pic I have viewed, I have never seen smoke comming
>>>>from the last smokestacks, so I think you are right about the
>>>>ornamental one. 
>>>
>>>Ornamental? Huh? As in fake? Oh well,
>>
>> The fourth, rear, "funnel" is actually an air intake for ventilation;
>> the above picture is therefore actually correct.
>
>Ah, that clarifies the situation.. Well, shouldn't that have been the
>first one, as now all the exhaust fumes are sucked into the intake..
>:-)

According to Don Lynch, Titanic historian, the fourth smokestack was
an outlet from the kitchen.  In Entertainment Weekly he's qouted as
saying, "The stoves were coal stoves, so you had some smoke out of the
fourth funnel."  
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