SHIPS & THEIR SMOKESTACKS or FUNNELS

 


The USS Monitor “Nantucket”.  My great grandfather, J.K. Smedley, was in the Union Navy during the Civil War and served aboard this ship.  That’s a lot of smoke billowing from the ship’s smokestack.

A ship much like the USS “Tullahoma” during the Civil War which J.K. Smedley also served aboard.

Photo from a history of Maine’s ferry service.

A steam ship operating on Lake Tahoe in the early years.


A steam ship resting at Meeks Bay pier, Lake Tahoe in the 1930s.

The smokestacks on the “Tahoe Queen” which paid a surprise visit to Meeks Bay one August evening in 2012 while I was sitting out on our cabin deck.

The smokestacks or funnels on the Titanic.


The stacks/funnels on the HMS luxury liner, "Queen Mary".


The stacks on Cunnard Line's HMS "Queen Elizabeth"


The stacks/funnels on a Disney cruise ship with highly recognizable markings.

The stacks on the “Island Princess” on which we cruised Alaska’s Inland Passage in August, 2017.  Great trip! 

:-> 

La Nightingail

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  1. Barbara RogersJanuary 27, 2023 at 2:25 PM

    What a great way to look at ships, through their smoke stacks. Thanks!

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    1. La NightingailJanuary 28, 2023 at 11:25 AM

      I've always called them smokestacks so I learned something new in presenting my post in a different way - that they are also/actually called funnels. That's one of the reasons I like to participate in Sepia Saturday. Because of the challenges in what & how to post your responses to the prompt picture, you find yourself doing all kinds of research you never would have done otherwise & subsequently learn all sorts of things you didn't know before. :)

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  2. KristinJanuary 28, 2023 at 6:21 AM

    That's really nice to have a photo of the ship your great grandfather served on during the Civil War. I have never seen a ship like that before.

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    1. La NightingailJanuary 28, 2023 at 11:29 AM

      Neither had I. It really does look rather strange and one has to wonder how in the world it didn't get swamped with water? But it apparently served its purposes well so the designers must have known what they were doing.

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  3. Mike BrubakerJanuary 29, 2023 at 9:58 AM

    You've assembled a fine armada of ships! I looked up the history of the USS Monitor “Nantucket” and was impressed that it survived the Civil War and even served in the brief Spanish-American War. I know the Civil War history of Charleston well and the Federal Navy's ironclad monitors played a critical part in blockading the southern ports. But those ships were not very seaworthy and very unstable in bad seas. Sailors who served on them had to have a lot of courage and skill.

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    1. La NightingailJanuary 29, 2023 at 11:14 AM

      Great grandfather was an engineer aboard the ships he served on during the Civil War which led to his engineering skills being used in other ways after the war - such as with trains which had him present at the driving of the Golden Spike to connect the Transcontinental Railroad.

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  4. ScotSueJanuary 31, 2023 at 12:56 AM

    A clever touch to continue your "stack" theme from last week. with some striking pictures of funnels. Seeing the output of smoke from the Titanic and Queen Mary, made me wonder what it must have been like for the men working below decks stoking the fires.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2023 at 4:53 PM

    Enjoyed this collection of ships and stacks, but most impressed by your great-grandfather's service on the ship in the first photo!

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  6. Monica T.February 1, 2023 at 7:05 AM

    A lot of smoke indeed back in those days... from both trains and ships!

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