Modern Design -- Cruise Ship Funnel on the Norwegian Pearl
by Darin Volpe
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Modern Design -- Cruise Ship Funnel on the Norwegian Pearl
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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This is the smokestack, or more properly the funnel, on Norwegian Cruise Lines' "Norwegian Pearl."
The funnel has always played an important part of a ship beyond it's function as the exhaust. Early on, the funnel was simply used to lift smoke from the coal fired boilers high above the deck. Early on people associated the number of funnels to how fast or powerful that ship was. Although untrue, ship builders began adding dummy funnels to take advantage of that belief and make their ships seem faster. Many of the most familiar ships like the Titanic or Queen Mary included these false funnels in their design. Most liners had black hulls and white superstructures, so the shipping lines would paint the funnels in distinctive colors - yellowish or pinkish tan for White Star Lines, red and black for Cunard, and so on. This use of color and design continues, and some Disney ships still include a false funnel.
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July 17th, 2019
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