No turbocharger involvement here, Ted: she is/was a steamer! Possibly a soot fire as she got underway after the bunker stop? Soot blowers would be working flat out to control it.

The Big Red Boat blows a ton of big black smoke!

Reg
not amazing at all !!! and most probably known to the company who owned it. Looking at it,,looks like the turbocharger of the engine is not in business, it works also without it as you can see. One can do it, has to do a few modifications and less rpm, but it works. This is now getting under way, a lot ships smoking a little initially when reving up, but this one is clearly to me without turbo charger and therefore correct,,not enough air.
But do you really believe that a ship destined for the breakers will be overhauled, major repaired, before ?

Thick, black smoke usually indicates too much fuel and not enough air. The ship could have used some engineers who know what they were doing. Amazing that they decided to sail in this condition at all.

It looks like a volcano eruption coming out of the funnel of the big red boat.
She sould have renamed to "big black smoke" !
Anyway what a pity for such a beuatiful ship.
Gerolf

Wow what a shot. Why so much black smoke do you think? Engines had it or a fire in engine room? :-?