Is the large “whale-tail” shaped object on the back of the ship a fashion or advertising piece, a stylized chimney/exhaust for the engines and/or kitchens & boilers, an observation tower, radio equipment, or what.
Yahscrew won’t let me reply or rate answers. I understand smoke stacks on old steam ships, and how many sailing vessels also have fossil fuel engines, even now.
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Helps to ballast the ship cuts down on rocking in ruff seas.That is under the boat on top its probably the smoke stack deisel engine smoke is ruff to smell all day and gives head aches.
Understant that the stack is from the days of steam ships and are most often ornamental now. They are mostly used now as ventilation and exhuast stacks to help keep fresh air circulating through the ship.
The Ailerons on a stack . mast or off the fantail are electronics pods that usually hold radar assemblies and comms units.
The Disney cruise line has a ship with a false stack that is actually a nightclub for the kids. Pretty cool.
This is the funnel or exhaust of the ships engines. Some cruise lines such as Carnival create there own shape for there funnels while most stay with the basic shape. Some cruise lines have two funnels. One of the is used as a nightclub and the other is for the engines.
The “Whale-Tail” is a funnel design used on Carnival cruise ships. It is actually a Carnival Patent. The wings are designed to assist the flow of exhaust gases from the diesel engines, generators etc: away from and over the aft leisure decks and passengers. The funnel and wings, made from a fibre glass composite and saving a weight of 75 tonnes compared to a steel funnel, force the flow of gases to exit the funnel horizontally out over the aft of the ship above the passenger decks.
I think you’re talking about the red funnel on Carnival ships. That happens to be one of their trade marks. I think it is supposed to resemble a whale tail. Different cruise lines have different style funnels, which is actually the smoke stack. Back in the days of the Titanic, ships were coal fired and required more than one smoke stack. One of them on the Titanic was actually a fake.
The big white sphere in not a water tower, like someone thought, but the satallite reciever for TV and telephone.
if they are read and blue “whale tails” then those are carnival ships and thats just like their trademark so you can tell their ships apart from other cruise lines easily