Inside the Smokestack of a Battleship!

In this episode, we're inside a smokestack talking about to reduce the number of stacks on a ship.
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[@dbcooper-alltimehideandsee6223]

When Ryan is old and gray and lost his mind he'll finish every conversation with, "Battleship New Jersey receives operating funds...." 😊 Thanks for what you do. I've learned a lot.

[@curtiswelter7483]

Made me chuckle HARD. Perfect response. ---- :) :) (old school)

[@yevgeny79]

@@curtiswelter7483With all due respect, who is Ryan? There is no Ryan, only "Ryan Szimanski Curator for Battleship New Jersey and Memorial" or RSCBNJM for short.

[@Grimpy970]

Don't worry about your dress or appearance! You may not exactly resemble the average museum curator, you don't exactly run an average museum! Most of those folks just sit at desks all day- they don't have to go rooting around or even maintaining the inside of their artifacts very often. Seeing that there's a young, fit, blue-collar looking guy running this show gives me confidence that you can manage and organize the maintenance on this beast! I wouldn't have it any other way

[@mm3mm3]

I really hope they pay Ryan and his crew well for all that they do for the ship and channel. Thank you all!

[@Fitz710]

Considering this is a museum that relies mainly on donations, probably not as well as he should be.

[@NoahKuzel]

It's a labor of love

[@davidvavra9113]

Lexington, CV2, had a narrow scary catwalk between the forward end of the funnels and the mast or superstructure. They'd make the new guys walk it, as told to me by a Lexington survivor.

[@mattimatkalainen]

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[@SteamCrane]

World's best curator, dressed appropriately.

[@Calaveras32Spcl]

Seems 2 is a good balance for spreading out boilers for redundancy while not taking up more deck space then needed.

[@firesilver123ify]

Having your own Iowa class Battleship to play on and explore. Lots of work I am sure but DANG it must be fun

[@AirborneRATT]

I find a little humor thinking that in WWII, we had smoke stacks that curved to deny the enemy a means of getting a bomb into the heart of the ship. Yet in Star Wars, .... (Death Star).... Just gonna leave this comment here. Thank you for everything you do. Appreciate it as always.

[@792slayer]

Ryan has shown us all the places on an Iowa that we didn't know were places. My nerd brain loves this.

[@stevelochead2681]

This man is amazing. I’ve been watching this channel for awhile and I honestly think he knows more about that ship than the sailors that were actually stationed on it.😂🇺🇸THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

[@6mm250]

If the Navy ever recommissioned New Jersey they would commission Ryan too.

[@asterisk606]

Absolutely he does haha. There would be anywhere from 1600-2700 crew on board New Jersey throughout her career. The sailors were each trained for a very specific job and the ship is massive, so chances are most sailors never saw much outside of their working areas or where they could stroll around during downtime.

[@markmark2080]

Perhaps the enlisted rating with the most general knowledge of mid sized and smaller ships was the Electrician's Mate, we not only dealt with machinery and equipment in EVERY part of the ship, but stood watches "down in the hole" as well. (spoken by a 1960s sailor)

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@markmark2080 from a late '80s sailor, on my ship when you finished qualifying for your underway EM watches you would have started on the IC watches. The reverse was also true. Pretty sure that my hearing loss was from SS Switchboard and Emergency Diesel Switchboard watches, and not from standing my "normal" Main IC Switchboard/Gyro Watch. Sounding and Security and DC Central watches were a given. When I left active duty I was also qualified for Repair Party Electrician and was working on Inport Duty EM. As far as general knowledge goes, think for a moment upon how many compartments did NOT have a 1MC speaker, a sound-powered phone jack, and/or a dial telephone.

[@markmark2080]

@@kevincrosby1760 Thanks for replying, YES, I was more of a VERY average "Gear head" when I went in with no particular interest in the movement of electrons, getting assigned to EM school was, at first, a disappointment that quickly changed. Standing watches in a 135 degree (I kid you not) diesel generator room on a WW2 LST in the tropical heat of blue and brown water Viet Nam, Steam turbine engine rooms on two other ships, changing reefer blower bearings down in a minus 10 degree freezer cargo hold in the middle of the night, stringing "Med lights" whenever entering a European Port, and my personal favorite was repairing/changing the aircraft warning lights at sea (only got to do it twice but each time took my camera up with me). It's kind of sad to think of the sailors who never really got to see their whole ship...After I got out of the Navy, that EM experience opened some Amazing doors for me that would have never happened otherwise...Cheers man.

[@chloehennessey6813]

“You people”! Yes. We people, we lovers of all things Battleship. Show us more! ❤

[@donrainey199]

Love your videos and many of comments.. I had 5 uncle's in WW2 and all came home.. what a miracle

[@jeffreyhowards68]

When I worked at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard we would Sun bathe on top of the stacks of the Perry Class Frigates. We had to work on the ECM room on top of the stacks and would periodically takes breaks.

[@fellwind]

Function has beauty. The Iowa's survived and the Yamato is a coral reef. Thus, I feel two stacks is superior to one.

[@allaboutboats]

I know you were using a common vernacular meaning "sunk" but in reality the Yamato is far too deep for a coral reef to grow! Coral needs light to grow and light does not reach that far down. LOL Good point though I agree 2 better than 1!

[@WardenWolf]

As cool as it would have been to have either Yamato or Musashi as a museum ship, politics would have never allowed it even if they survived. They sure as heck weren't going to let the Japanese keep her, and having such an iconic ship displayed as a war trophy in the US would have permanently soured relations. Even if they survived the war they would have been destined for scrapping. It was MacArthur's policy of treating them with respect and helping them rebuild that turned them into one of our staunchest allies post-World War 2..

[@fred6319]

@@WardenWolf you mean vassal state

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Do you think Titanic is a coral reef? Have you been on a coral reef?

[@jameshigh6481]

Interesting that number of funnels being an indicator of speed. The Titanic and her sisters had four funnels but only three were functional. The fourth was a dummy 8n order to make them look faster.

[@adamdubin1276]

The fourth vented smoke from the grand fireplace and the fumes from the fist class smoking rooms as well as the ship's galley.

[@huibertlandzaat1889]

Again, thank you for uploading.

[@alanbare8319]

I like single funnel designs as exemplified by South Dakota class battleships and Des Moine class cruisers.

[@vrod665]

Stern mounted diffusion funnels … saw it as a POC. Looked cool and was partially water diffused BUT also looked impracticable.

[@drtwo]

I pause the video and then I come back to it and then you just like oh hey over in this area is a wonderful pit of death

[@Ben-lu9lh]

I think the Iowa class battleships were (and still are) the most beautiful ships ever made, and their two funnels are almost works of art. No more, no less.

[@frankbodenschatz173]

My grandfather served on a four stack armoured cruiser during WW1 Ryan the USS FREDRICK! If you visit the USS SLATER you can also see the four mufflers leading to the smokestack.

[@Christopher-os7eo]

Looking at ID tag for the hatch… “Huh, it doesn’t say funnel!” Little fun dig at Drach?

[@unprofessionalreviews26]

IRN Askold had 5 stacks, and had standard armament for 1st rate protective cruiser and almost 24 knots speed, which was pretty impressive for 1902 launch time.

[@donanddebbie3188]

Ryan- Thank you for this video. My follow-up questions are: What is the purpose of this space inside the smoke stack? Who would go in there? When? Why? Thanks.

[@SkeletorV1]

Sometrhing enjoyable about watching Ryan trying to fit in small places

[@BoredBob]

My grandfather served on an old 4 stack Wickes class destroyer during WWII, DD-149 USS Barney.

[@phil20_20]

Three! 😅😅😅 You look like Gulliver talking through that door.

[@charlesstuart846]

Thank you for responding to my request for showing the inside of the fore smoke stack.

[@safetymikeengland]

LOL - at 2:00 - "we're gonna crawl in there" . . . better you than me, dude. I'm glad YOU are gonna crawl in there and I'm really glad you are sharing your continueing adventures on KZbin. clearly, you are unfamiliar with claustrophobia. . .

[@WardenWolf]

It is better to have fewer funnels because it allows you to route the smoke away from the fire control directors. They really do need to trunk the forward boiler rooms into a rearward funnel to avoid this, and that is exactly what the Iowa-class does. Two funnels, though, are better than one as damage to one of the stacks won't have as big an impact.

[@billpotmesil]

You dress just fine! Love the places you take us!

[@Jason607]

So much goes into these ships. More than people realize.

[@ChrisSmith-rm6xl]

Have you ever noticed how fast Ryan can say "Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial"? I wonder how many times a day he says that?

[@johnchilds6471]

They were divided so that each boiler had it's own stack inside the 2 main funnels. This allowed the BT's to clean the stack of each boiler without the stack gasses from the steaming boilers killing them. Never cleaned the stacks from a ship burning NFSO, but distillate fuel made enough mess that you couldn't tell a black sailor from a white sailor till we took off our goggles.

[@garypaulstratton]

If your ship is optimised for speed, in the treaty/ww2 era, two funnels are probably the most optimal compromise of space/protection/plant distribution, depending on how exactly the steam and engineering spaces are laid out. From a purely personal and aesthetic view, two funnels always look more balanced than one. Older cruisers and destroyers can get away with more, but for me two is always the best looking.

[@GeoHvl]

There are things that the US Navy does while ships are underway. They blow the Stack. The ship I was on did about every 2 hours. There were Watch posts at the stack, Aft Port, and Starboard lookouts. When that blew the stack you best not be around the vents This black, gooey, soot blew out it stuck to skin like glue.

[@Mariner311]

Interesting - I spent 90% of my time aboard Perry-class frigates with it's single stack for the 2 gas-turbines. Then again, I was an Airedale , so didn't pay much attention to the boat until I decided to get Surface Warfare qualified as well as Aviation and Aircrew qualifications - was actually rather FUN learning the ships systems.

[@sparkplug1018]

I think 2 is the ideal number. Maximizes deck space so you can have more guns, better arcs of fire, etc as well as interior volume for ammo and crew. I feel like a single stack sacrifices way to much inside the ship, and 4 while looking attractive sacrifices to much on the deck. So 2 it is.

[@tomscotttheolderone364]

The number of stacks is largely determined by function. The ideal number is what it takes to contain all of the boiler uptakes while staying within a practical size. Boiler uptakes must stay within their design constraints of cross sectional area and the number and degree of bends you can put in them without reducing draft. Even if they could all be contained within one funnel, wide spacing between boilers may result in too many or too angled bends in the uptakes to fit, requiring them to be split between two funnels.

[@sparkplug1018]

@@tomscotttheolderone364 Those are all valid design considerations of course. I was just thinking out loud in an over simplified perspective of aesthetics and function I suppose.

[@tomscotttheolderone364]

@@sparkplug1018 Sure, I understand!

[@chrisreynolds6520]

Ryan, I do tend to agree with you on the funnel numbers. 4 stackers are generally a great looking ship. 4 stacker destroyers, cruisers, Olympic class, Lusitania class, Aquitania and some of the German liners. There are some 3 stackers that look good too such as the HMAS Canberra, a few of the british BCs and Queen Mary. There were also some great looking twin stackers as well like the SS United States. If Montana class had been built, hate to say it they would have looked even better than the Iowas. That being said the number of funnels that look good are alao directly related to the age of the ship. The Great Eastern was an impressive looking ship with 5 funnels, sails, a propeller, and paddle wheels. I also always liked the look of the Hindenburg that was scuttled at Scapa Flow. The picture of its funnels sticking out of the water will always be iconic.

[@muznick]

Would be interested in seeing the top down view into the funnel. Maybe doable with a camera drone.

[@franklinwerren7684]

At the time the Iowas were built, I would think that stacks were going out of style and today a funnel is a great big bullseye for a heat seeker ordinance. Today if you built a big capital ship like a battleship, they would have the same power plants as the navy carriers today. Many ships if they use a turbine that also dumps its exhaust in the sea below water level hence little or no heat signature. 😊

[@allaboutboats]

Not quite correct! You are mixing the closed loop steam cycle with the fuel combustion path. Yes, a steam turbine exhausts into a main condenser which uses seawater inside cooling tubes to turn the exhausted steam back into pure boiler feed water. In a completely separate flowpath, the fuel ignited in the burners and then used to boil the feed water into steam must still exhaust through a smokestack unless you are using a nuclear reactor. The last oil fired Aircraft Carrier we built, CV67 USS John F Kennedy built in 1968 used smokestacks just like the New Jersey. I am fairly certain that "IR Heat Signatures" is not a concern for such a large vessel that has Jet Engine Exhausts running 24/7/365 on the flight deck. Also ships of that size have defensive systems to defeat weapons or aircraft using any type of Heat Sensors. I served aboard 2 Nuclear Powered Ships in the Engine room in case you wonder how I know this!

[@MrJeep75]

Love the old 4 stackers

[@aidenschwartz]

I’ve been waiting for this video since I started watching this awesome channel.

[@rohanthandi4903]

you guys should get a drone for these videos. Imagine how sick an intro would be from a drone POV getting closer to wherever ur at and then it shifts to the camera

[@marioncobaretti2280]

Thankyou master curator

[@mobius0224]

Off the tour route, near the machine shop there is a door that is labeled in such a way as to suggest it too leads into the funnels. Did you ever do a video inside that space?

[@eric24567]

One stack for aesthetics. They're not practical, but the Richelieu class and Yamato class look so pretty. The King-Nimtiz design Iowa looks astonishing as well. But for practicality, two stacks is probably best. Sufficient deck space saving, leaves enough interior space, and you minimize the effect that a damaged smoke stack would have. Instead of it effecting 100% of your bullets, a hit on a stack only effects 50% of your boilers. A good trade off imo.

[@michaelwild888]

Lexington was a crazy design. Glad it was reused for a CV. I think the two pairs design, which you seldom see, was interesting. I think two smoke stacks make the most sense and look good on the Hood. Again giant stack on Lexington (barf) next to useless 8" guns (double barf). Never sure what Brits were thinking on Dreadnaugts with mast just behind smoke stack (cough cough) with ranger finders (can't see anything as covered with hot soot, sir).

[@sarahwalker1060]

Just finished building the Battleship New Jersey that you talked about about a month ago

[@billmoran3812]

As an engineer, my opinion is two stacks it the most efficient use of space and is esthetically appealing as well. A single stack becomes unwieldy trying to get all the boiler uptakes to align with the single stack. Multiple stacks beyond two obstructs gun angles and uses too much deck space.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Wasn’t the very unclever boiler ducting of the Ark Royal largely behind it sinking from relatively minor damage by one U-boat torpedo?

[@wilsonle61]

I would bet that radar equipment for the MK-37 director is the High Voltage Power Supply for the MK25 radar.

[@KiithnarasAshaa]

If I were in charge of a nation and producing or modernizing a gun-carrying battleship for surface combat, I wouldn't be wasting space on fuel boilers or smokestacks at all. I'd go right for the nuclear-powered design. Yes it is a liability if damaged, but it's also far more compact and reduces a huge amount of topweight, allowing the ship to be more stable and also have those engine and powerplant spaces even more heavily armored.

[@tomkavulic7178]

More stacks more better

[@ct2368]

You do a great job, thanks.

[@Aetrion]

I think two funnels looks good because together with the conning tower it kind of maintains a semblance to a full rigged sailing ship with lots of tall stuff sticking out above its deck.

[@F-Man]

Armored trunking is about to enter the chat, I suspect.

[@KennethStone]

Boy, definitely nerdy to have a preferred number of smokestacks on a battleship... 😉

[@patrickmorris9710]

Battleship Texas called the truck space drying rooms because they were very hot inhaptable but perfect for drying clothes

[@rickchapman9232]

A quite a few years ago I was working with a company and I was working with a man and we were working on a USNS ship on the false stack, we were getting ready to leave and he dropped his flashlight down the big uptake. I was the one who had to climb down the ladder inside of it to get get the flashlight.

[@MrDaveKC]

I think the old ships with four were very cool, but practically, I think one or two makes the most sense.

[@Huntress236]

Im a fan of five funnels in a gradient, each successive funnel is slightly lower than the funnel forward of it. But I'm also a big fan of dark smoke plumes. I have been known to trunk it down to two or three recently as I've been putting more Iowa stylized superstructures on my battleships. Not s huge fan of the British side-by+side style either.

[@rustyhesson1433]

I always wanted to see how much internal room, the stacks took up

[@TheShawna1]

we call it breeching into the uptake manifold and out the stack.

[@Pyeknu]

I'd go for three funnels bunched together in an Edwardian-like manner, but with the trunking arranged in a way so that the fire rooms are separated by watertight and armoured bulkheads for protection.

[@GregtheArmyvet]

Hi Ryan can you tell us about man over board of the ship , and whats the drill for when the ship is SINKING too thanks Ryan

[@gregqualtieri609]

One of the carriers I was on we had the uptake for the aux diesel going thru the shop got hotter than hell when running. I can only wonder what is like in a space when they were running.

[@jmd1743]

It's ironic that a ship with so many redundancies as if the admirals were chomping at the bit to have their own Jutland in the pacific or another Battle of Tsushima and yet they were afraid to risk any of their battle ships. Makes me wonder if our super carriers are going to be kept in port like what happened with the imperial German navy.

[@frankbodenschatz173]

Nope, they're always out, in transition, or being refitted!

[@jmd1743]

@@frankbodenschatz173 Would the USA stick a carrier group between Taiwan and China in an actually shooting fight without repeating what they did with Iraq where they brought in 20 different armies to fight Iraq including 2 other nuclear armed powers? That's basically a tough guy who won't confront anyone unless he's able to drag his entire goon squad into the fight. Britain had more class fighting Argentina.

[@allaboutboats]

@@jmd1743 To answer your question Yes we already have A CV in the Philippine Sea just off Taiwan as we speak. It arrived there mid April USS Nimitz CVN68. Plus US Doctrine says to bring as many combat assets into the theater as possible which may actually discourage the outbreak of hostility. You know the "Big Stick" doctrine? You never want to fight on even terms that is foolish. You want to completely overwhelm them so they have no hope of success. However, I do not believe that would be the case in Taiwan, simply because of who our current President is, he is bought and paid for/corrupted by the CCP, so he would not stand up to an invasion of Taiwan except for "optics" purposes only, in my humble opinion.

[@frankbodenschatz173]

@n/a n/a no ad that's severely limiting the battlegroups defensive options and increasing China's. They'll stay to seaward of Taiwan and provide options to protect it and keep Chinas agressive forces from landing. There may be an opportunity for a destroyer or other ship to provide a couple of passages thru the straight, and it may be an ally or one of ours of both? But all it would take is one misstep on the part of China's aggressive government to bring on the wrath of ALL the parties concerned 😟. Not just the USA. China's trade routes will be cut off immediately, !nd that will spell disaster for their economy, more so than Russia, because everyone has become aware.of what they are trying to do after Russias failed attempt with Ukraine and they're sick and tired of it. Are you?

[@jmd1743]

@@frankbodenschatz173 I want to clean up Mexico. I feel that the energy,resources,man power, and political support we've spent on the middle east since 2001 should have been spend on a peace keeping mission like Kosovo in Mexico. I don't like how people boast about how powerful the navy is against china when if a smack down were to take place it would be a whole boxing gym worth of trainees vs one guy(china) fighting in a boxing ring. If China manages to get a lucky 1 in a million shot like what happened with the Hood the Americans would over react and support killing millions of civilians with nuclear weapons over a few thousand dead carrier sailors when they threw 50,000 lives away in Vietnam. I want a honest clean fight like Jutland & Savo Island, not some turkey shoot because 4 Nuclear powers(USA,UK,France,India) showed up to fight one half-baked navy. It's like saying Cortez fought honorably with the resources he threw at the aztecs. Maybe China will pull off a Lions Vs. GB Packers.

[@seafodder6129]

No love for the macks (combined mast + stack), Ryan? The Knox class Frigates pulled that look off pretty well.

[@krtwood]

Taking the ship to dry dock is not an excuse to add two more smokestacks, Ryan. Don't even think about it!

[@pauld6967]

The exterior view of the top of the smokestack raised a question with me. What are those pipes at the top which look reminiscent of the sound horn on a phonograph?

[@yota4004]

wonder how hot it got in those spaces when underway at high speed?

[@johnfisher9692]

It would seem that with 1930s-40s tech most nations went with 2 smoke stacks in their new Battleships, only Germany, Japan and France went with the single.

[@Tomcatntbird]

My main concern is that u have the turning gear engaged so the shafts for the props don't sag uner their own weight. I would also suggest to start the engines ever so often to maintain operational integrity. I was in the US Navy for 8 years 97-05. I desommed 2 ships, uss Peterson dd969 and use Guam lph9. I highly suggest for you to seek people to maintain our natural treasures.

[@willpat3040]

Only issue is under their contract they can not start the engines or run the boilers for any reason.

[@crgkevin6542]

I find that between 2 and 4 is an ideal range for funnels, aesthetically speaking.

[@robhartley3930]

I was led to understand that the reason for the double s shape of the boiler exhaust wass to reduce the chance of either a bomb or shell explosion on the funnel allowing the fragments or explosive gases reaching to boiler and either causing damage or more likely extinguish the boiler flame.

[@johnchilds6471]

We also had grates above the economizer to prevent a bomb reaching a boiler. on a DD a bomb exploding a steaming boiler would basically cut the ship in half.

[@American_Jeeper]

Ryan, have you done a video on why the Iowas weren’t upgraded to nuke power, when they were reactivated in the 80’s? That would be an interesting conversation and video.

[@BattleshipNewJersey]

Way back in the day: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJy5d2Vrh96thZI

[@9peppe]

that's incredibly expensive, nearly as expensive as building it anew. there's a reason you only use nuke power on really big ships (carriers) and ships with limited oxygen (submarines)

[@xaero76]

The Titanic and sister ships had 4 funnels, but only 3 funnels were operational, the 4th was just for decoration

[@JoeBlow-zr2ru]

The decks should be entirely covered with funnels to confuse the dive bombers. Put small funnels on the heads of the crew. Put funnels on the turrets. Put funnels on the funnels. Funnels are the answer to every problem. It's funnels ... all the way down. You're welcome. 😁

[@anselmdanker9519]

Is a grille in the smoke stack to prevent the bombs from falling directly into the boiler room?

[@vixenraider1307]

Alaska had good stack design honestly.

[@georgescott7556]

i also agree 4 smoke stacks are the perfect number nothing more!!👍🏻🖖🏻😉

[@franzfanz]

I'm a sucker for the ugly ducklings of the battleship world, the Nelson class. A single funnel and nine sixteen inch guns. It's honestly such an efficient design. I always wonder what would have happened if the RN had built a second class of ships with the same design.

[@wfoj21]

Why is that even a hatch? We have seen Ryan go to access plates with umpteen screws removed- I think never before see a hatch that small. Ryan dress quite nicely for where he goes !(I bet he visited compartment before looking grungier to ensure a relative level of cleanliness of where he will go.

[@kevinkern2149]

For me, funnels look best when they number one, two, or four. Most of the single-stackers have good lines so long as the stack is centrally placed near amidships (all military designs I can think of do this I'm sure to protect the boilers, but it also applies to most sea-going vessels until post-WWII). Ships with their single funnel offset to the stern (classic Great Lakes freighters and liners, practically all modern, non-military vessels of significant size, but especially cruise ships not built for Disney) have an uphill climb against the stern-heavy look that configuration tends to give. The even number of stacks in a two or four stack design provides a natural line of symmetry for these ships. Compare Titanic, whose midpoint almost lines up with the compass platform between the second and third funnels, to Queen Mary, which (to me anyway) seems to have a gap between the third funnel and the main mast that begs for a fourth funnel (her sister, Queen Elizabeth - a two-stacker - doesn't share this aesthetic problem).

[@TheBobservations]

Two looks best and works best.

[@robertkrusin9856]

Oh the chimney.. lol

[@brianbranson2306]

real noisy headers out the side

[@stanbrow]

You should give your camera person some credit for all the strange places she gets into.

[@drdremd]

She is a heck of an impressive worker.

[@stanbrow]

@@drdremd absolutely, and I believe most viewers don’t even think about her.

[@michaellombard894]

Dare I call it a.... Chimney!!

[@PrivatePAuLa29a]

i prefere sleeker lines, so for me it's one or two smokestacks because i think more clutter up the outline of the vessel.

[@EDKguy]

Is it true? Where there's smoke, there's fire?

[@jcadlols]

Not specifically for the smoke stack but do you use a gas monitor and have a spotter when entering confined spaces?

[@joeglenn1480]

Agree, four.

[@keresztesbotond740]

For a battleship probably two is best as a compromise between firing arcs and safety. For looks, 4 is the way to go! If you don't believe me just have a look at RMS Titanic

[@benjohnson2421]

Did Ryan fail to mention the Curator Width of that hatch to access the funnel? 🤔

[@frankbodenschatz173]

Just be safe Ryan and Libby!

[@jamesweber1827]

When I see Ryan dressed like this, I'm sure we'll see another part of the New Jersey that's not on the tour.

[@RScottPR]

Now that it’s a museum, are the tops of the smoke stacks covered to keep rain water and birds etc out of them? Seems left uncovered there could be an erosion problem.

[@BattleshipNewJersey]

Yes they are

[@Virtu953]

Four funnels says "move" because im coming through! Two sounds more practical, but I mean four just commands the seas.

[@crp5591]

Dumb question: Are the tops of the funnels covered in some way to keep water out when it snows or rains? Less water entering the ship, less corrosion to worry about would be my thought.