UNITED STATES - IMO 5373476
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Clive Harvey on Jul 04, 2012 22:31 (10 months ago) | |
| Admit it Denis, you don't really know what you are talking about. You just sound as though you are desperate to try and prove your point and what you are saying is nonsense. |
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Dеnis on Jul 04, 2012 21:34 (10 months ago) | |
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Nevertheless, an ugly looking funnels as if their designer worked at nuclear plant & was inspired by that.
@Chris, still a massive air resistance is present. Otherwise, they could have made everything above water as just a box if the underwater hull shape gives those 40kn with that machinery on purely it's own. |
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Clive Harvey on Jul 04, 2012 21:26 (10 months ago) | |
| Denis, drawing comparisons between the funnels of Michelangelo and Raffaello and the Chernobyl disaster is beyond ridiculous.There is no relationship between those two liners and a nuclear power plant and the disaster happened years after the ships entered service. Your statement is utter nonsense. |
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Chris Howell on Jul 04, 2012 20:56 (10 months ago) | |
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Sorry Denis the speed of the ship comes down to the hull form/size and power of engines.
She could manage nearly 39 knots on approx 247,000 H.P.,to achieve 50 knots probably 900,000 H.P. would have been required in the same hull, impossible then and now. |
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Dеnis on Jul 04, 2012 20:50 (10 months ago) | |
| Also, those funnels on Michelangelo and Raffaello are the ugliest funnels I've ever seen. They give a nuclear-shade to design & besides, remind of Chernobyl disaster. |
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Dеnis on Jul 04, 2012 20:40 (10 months ago) | |
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But what was inside them?
@Clive: Exactly! If those funnels were smaller or just pipes I think her speed could have been up to 45 - 50 kn. |
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jadran on Jul 04, 2012 20:31 (10 months ago) | |
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The funnels were purposely designed as they are to be always the recognized image of this liner.
If the funnels were smaller and shorter the UNITED STATES would generally look like the preceding Italian liner REX. |
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Clive Harvey on Jul 04, 2012 20:26 (10 months ago) | |
| Way too big? That's like saying France should not have had those fins on her funnels, that Michelangelo and Raffaello should not have had those latticed funnels, that Rotterdam should have had two funnels like those on Nieuw Amsterdam and that the QE2 should have had a funnel like the one on Caronia...!!!!!!!! |
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Dеnis on Jul 04, 2012 19:59 (10 months ago) | |
| Whatever was inside those funnels, they look way too big. |
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Mr. DOT on Jul 04, 2012 19:16 (10 months ago) | |
| this truly was a magnificent site in her active life! mrdot. |
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