The Real Reason Behind Carnival's Iconic Funnel Design

[@TheRiverPirate13]

Carnival did a great job with their iconic funnel design. Seeing it instantly says it is a Carnival Ship! Celebrity using the X-style funnel is also a great way to identify the cruise line's ship such as the Edge. Disney using the red double funnel is also very recognizable even from a distance. Good info Emma on what inspired the Carnival funnel!

[@EmmaCruises]

Yesss! Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@everything777]

Looked even better when it was on fire

[@peteiswriteingnow]

Iv learnt a lot about Funnels tonight only you could make this subject interesting thanks Emma.

[@brucepobanz]

One of my first sailings was on the SS Norway. It still had SS France plaques on the ship. I enjoyed the indoor pool. Later became the Roman Spa. Thanks for the mention. Reminded me of the 1970's era

[@EmmaCruises]

Ooo!! Sounds amazing 😀💕

[@markplymale]

I’m obsessed with your channel haha I’m so glad you popped up in my recommended!

[@EmmaCruises]

Yay!!! Thanks Mark. This is the highest kinda praise a channel can get I think. I appreciate it!!

[@dannelson9354]

Great history, Emma, thank you. Here's an unusual fact about the cruise industry that might be interesting for you to report on. Cruise ships often sail at more than 100 percent full. In the industry, a full cruise ship is when each room has two occupied berths, but many rooms have more than two berths, so the ship can be over 100 percent full. The industry leader is Disney, which often has ships that are 150 percent full because of all the kids in the upper berths! Strange science indeed.

[@mikejohnson7132]

Love the info on Carnival! My favorite cruise line to sail on! Thank you Thank you Emma! 👀👀👀👀

[@EmmaCruises]

Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@timlewis1956]

We sailed on the Norway for our first cruise back in 1995 - it was a very elegant ship - at the time it was the longest passenger ship ever built

[@EmmaCruises]

Oooo interesting 😀💕

[@10gamer64]

By norway you mean the SS La France, correct?

[@timlcpa]

@@10gamer64 It was originally the SS France, but when Norwegian bought it in 1979 it was renamed the SS Norway

[@richb5574]

Our first cruise was our honeymoon on the Norway in 1980. It was fantastic for the time. The crew said it was the roughest cruise since the crossing from Europe. We could wave surf in the pools. This was before they shut the pool for "turbulence".

[@EmmaCruises]

Ooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dylanseaman5163]

Thank you Emma. I hope you and yours are having a great week. Great story today. pet Hudson. Cheers. and on a technical note....I love the lighting. white and bright with the Blue. makes me smile.

[@EmmaCruises]

They Dylan, that’s called... I CAN FILM IN THE DAYTIME NOW 🤣🤣🥲🤣🤣

[@keithsmith1642]

Celebrity "X" is unique and the scrubbers inside the funnel are very intriguing as to how they clean the fumes before releasing in the air. My wife and I sailed on the Edge right before (literally 2 weeks before COVID closed everything down). It's quite an interesting ship design.

[@EmmaCruises]

Thats interesting 😮❤️ Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

The X on Celebrity Funnels / Logo is from the original brand Chandris Line. It is a remnant from history.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Norway sailed under two brands under two names - SS. France (original) for the French Line and SS. Norway for her NCL career. She was finally named Blue Lady for her final voyage to Alang. A remarkable ship.

[@EmmaCruises]

Ok ship nerd

[@EmmaCruises]

KIDDING LOVE YOu (still a ship nerd) 🤣❤️

[@PatrickWagz]

Great video, Emma. Carnival's first 3 ships, that you showed in the beginning of this video were the original Mardi Gras, the Festivale, and the Carnivale. Well, my VERY FIRST cruise ever was onboard the Carnivale in 1992. I've been hooked on cruising ever since!! 😁

[@Star-Boarder]

I admire your passion for cruising. There is so much to cruising. Always helpful and informative, especially if you're a geek like me.

[@CruiseWithJosh]

Great video Emma! Hugs!♥️

[@EmmaCruises]

Oh hey you!!! Thanks Josh 😀💕

[@justinnm28]

I love many different ship iconic funnels. Carnival Cruise funnel iconic like whale tail. Yes that Disney cruise ship have 2 funnel stacks front fake funnel stack 2 real funnel stack. I love Disney Cruise and my favorite funnel stack is Celebrity Beyond edge class ship. Many different funnel stacks style. I love it. Thank you for sharing information about funnel stacks.

[@susancarriker6645]

Cruised on the Festivale in 1989. My first that introduced me to cruising.

[@EmmaCruises]

Sounds good! 😁🥳

[@crado]

Hey Emma, thanks for the video. The whale tail design was introduced in 1981 with the newbuilding Tropicale which started cruises from January 1982. Interesting that it took 8 years to protect it.

[@EmmaCruises]

Yeah I couldn’t find any earlier patents but maybe one existed 🤔💕

[@YukariAkiyamaTanks]

Great video as always emma!

[@EmmaCruises]

Thank you! 😁❤️

[@VidIan262009]

And this was the video that got me to subscribe to your channel. I LOVE little historical vignettes like this. Well done and thanks! Also, Happy Friday! (Also, RIP Prince Philip.) 🇬🇧

[@EmmaCruises]

Yay thanks Ian! RIP indeed ❤️

[@Angarsk100]

Oh! love the "fun fact" flavour of this vid, Thank you for sharing the stories.

[@EmmaCruises]

Welcome! I find this stuff interesting bit of a ship nerd 😂💕

[@Angarsk100]

@@EmmaCruises I know! That's why I follow your channel. It's so nerdy-nice haha

[@hobsonp67]

I sailed on the Festivale when it was the Island Breeze just a few years before she was scrapped. She may have been a bit of a tub, but she gave me that cruise bug. She also had the best Cruise Director I have ever known, a Scot called Colin, renowned for his catchphrase in a Greek accent (pretending to be the Captain) 'Colin come to de bridge' great week :-)

[@trentonnutma5785]

The titanics 4th funnel was used to vent air from the kitchens and the first class fireplace so it was not a dummie

[@EmmaCruises]

Thats interesting 😮❤️ Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@katepm56]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

[@10gamer64]

The Cunard line has the most interesting ship history out of still operating ocean line, from the paddlewheeler Unicorn to the Queen Mary 2

[@EmmaCruises]

Yesss so much! 😀💕

[@georgeleong1572]

Carnival had sold one of their older ships that had the iconic funnel to another cruise co. Eventually that funnel shape will make it's way beyond Carnival. Great post.

[@EmmaCruises]

Ooo! I didn’t think they sold they much... usually scrapped ☹️😂

[@jamesnunez1703]

My first cruise in 1985. My parents and I cruised the carnival festival. Being a 17 yr old kid from Galveston Texas area I was in awe of the blue waters of Florida , the girls in bikinis ( remember I was 17🙄) and the drinking age was 17 🤩. To this day I still get that-excited feeling when arriving on the ship.

[@teresah5318]

Well that was very interesting. I now will pay more attention to them! Thanks :)

[@EmmaCruises]

Yay! Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@ParkSloper]

First saw the France as trans-Atlantic ocean liner in the very early 1960's, when my Dad took me into Manhattan to see her arrive on her maiden voyage in. Still can visually remember watching the tugs bring her in.

[@EmmaCruises]

Ooo!!! That’s amazing. Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@craigmcnicol6441]

Love the video! Also I love your map wall art , did you buy it here in the UK? If so where?

[@EmmaCruises]

The map is from here: enjoythewood.com/?rfsn=5433540.ccb51c 😄😍 (This is my affiliate link, it doesn't cost you any more to buy through this link but I get a little commission so if you do decide to buy it and could use the above link, I'd really appreciate it!)

[@frankrotondo3771]

Great video my other half Jim was on the first Mardi Gras n loved it now we r booked on the new one as always love from Florida

[@EmmaCruises]

Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@thespeedypatriot6201]

My first Carnival cruise was in 2004, I was only 3 so I don’t remember much, we were sailing on Carnival Imagination out of Miami, Florida, I don’t exactly remember our intended ports of call but we got held up because a plane crashed into the ship channel (unfortunately there were no survivors), after a few days in port we were finally cleared to leave, to stay on schedule the ship only sailed to Cozumel, but I’m glad my family and I stayed on the ship, most of the passengers left so we had a lot of the ship to ourselves, this Christmas I’ve also sailed on the Carnival Conquest, Carnival Magic, and this Christmas I’ll be sailing onboard Carnival Breeze

[@kenrussell7422]

Great to learn, fab to watch! - thank you :)

[@EmmaCruises]

Thanks Ken! 😀❤️

[@themole1944]

WOW Emma thanks your a mine of information all interesting i might add never ever boring again thanks.

[@EmmaCruises]

Haha thanks John! Never boring 😀❤️

[@LittleJohnAB1]

Pretty cool blend of form & function.

[@EmmaCruises]

Yeah! I like it 😀👏🏼

[@bobnapoli4245]

Very informative and interesting!

[@EmmaCruises]

Thank you! 😁❤️

[@HansHess1018]

Great video and Information Emma.

[@EmmaCruises]

Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@peterwalton3858]

I sailed from New York to France on the SS France in 1972. She was beautiful.

[@kennixox262]

Pretty good fire show with their funnel as well.

[@EmmaCruises]

😂🤣🤣

[@johnriddle9107]

Brilliant, thanks

[@gh7319]

There's also the Cumard funnel, though only used by four ships starting with Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), with it's scoop around the base which was designed to create an updraught to carry exhaust up an off the passenger decks below.

[@EmmaCruises]

Yesss, love that. Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@gh7319]

@@EmmaCruises not sure cruising is for me, even though I'm in my mid-late twenties I've so far spent most of my working life on boats already, originally on ferries, then inshore shellfish boats, and recently now back to ferries again after getting shipwrecked a towards the end of last year. Still very interesting content though, thanks for sharing.

[@echubbi8611]

Not sure if I prefer that wider/fatter carnival funnels or the original skinner ones on the older ships- though the skinny ones would look strange on a ship like the Panorama, so I’m not complaining 😁

[@EmmaCruises]

Yeah! I think I like the wider ones 🤔😂

[@LuckyLion1378]

@@EmmaCruises agreed

[@deborahchamberlain7841]

Emma, the 3D map that is behind you on the wall, where did that come from? I'm looking for something like that to track our travels.

[@EmmaCruises]

Hey Deborah! The map is from here: enjoythewood.com/?rfsn=5433540.ccb51c 😄😍 (This is my affiliate link, it doesn't cost you any more to buy through this link but I get a little commission so if you do decide to buy it and could use the above link, I'd really appreciate it!) I THINK they have a 50% off sale at the moment so now might be a good time. 😀🥳

[@billyfearon941]

Yes thank you for the history lesson very interesting

[@EmmaCruises]

Thanks Billy! 😀👏🏼

[@billyfearon941]

@@EmmaCruises ✋✋✋

[@bobkrakovich1851]

Hi Emma. The only funnels we like are Funnel Cakes. Lightly fried donut batter which I believe originated in Pennsylvania here in the states. Hi from Bob and Jill in Connecticut, go Chelsea FC

[@commanderredhawk7468]

Cool. Thanks for the history info.

[@EmmaCruises]

Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@richarddeason1845]

I enjoy the information

[@VictoriaGates]

Interesting history! Had no idea on many of these things.

[@EmmaCruises]

Me neither but I love this stuff 😀💕

[@stevemartin5217]

Great Video Emma. Just a small correction though, although France/Norway did have a long career she only sailed under two names and was operated by only 2 lines, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique(French Line) as France 1962-1974 and NCL as Norway 1980-2003. There was various parties interested in buying her during her 5 year lay up but these came to nothing. NCL purchased her in 1979, having her towed to Germany for conversion to Norway.

[@EmmaCruises]

Interesting! Thanks 😀👍🏼 Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@markmaz56]

Thanks for that "exhausting" explanation! ;-)

[@EmmaCruises]

Oh ha ha 🤣🤣🤣

[@lowercherty]

The Pacific Princess in Love Boat had some sort of fins on the funnel too.

[@JeremyOsborne1981]

Hash Browns!

[@EmmaCruises]

Mmm!

[@KakinaKanjaa-hc9pt]

YES

[@jlmhamedia]

I love their whale tale funnel.

[@Toogoodtobetrue458]

Can’t mistake that for anything but carnival- very recognizable

[@cafsixtieslover]

The whale tail funnel can be seen a long way away - the first couple of times I went to Amsterdam on the Magellan I knew as long as I could see the funnel I would never get lost.

[@EmmaCruises]

Yesss!! Exactly 😀💕

[@johank9161]

Really interesting- thx Emma! Nice background to What makes the large funnels rise straight up. Now .. I wonder .. when Will cruising ships again use sails. Fake or real?

[@EmmaCruises]

Some still do! Very expensive ones 😂👏🏼

[@75Froggie]

Funnel? Oh, you mean smokestack! Unconscious Britishism. You're a doll! :-D

[@EmmaCruises]

What? Funnel isn’t a British word 🤣

[@75Froggie]

@@EmmaCruises Most Americans have no idea that ships' smokestacks are called funnels. For the first half of this video, I was looking at the ships depicted linearly trying to spot corridors channeling wide areas into narrow ones! 🤣

[@mrqz77]

Hudson is really enjoying his time in Ukraine! :)

[@EmmaCruises]

Oh yes he hasn’t wanted to move 😂

[@jfwfreo]

I didn't know you could have a full on roller coaster on a cruise ship and have it work.

[@ElloImNoodle]

Is there a costa cruise with the carnival funnel Because a person who comments on videos has a picture of a costa cruise with a carnival funnel

[@EmmaCruises]

Ooo errrmmmm!

[@CC-Cobalt-1043]

There is a carnival ship that was meant to be a Costa ship

[@ElloImNoodle]

@@CC-Cobalt-1043 was that the carnival victory or something that starts with a v

[@CC-Cobalt-1043]

@@ElloImNoodle the carnival splendor, it was transferred to Carnival during construction

[@ElloImNoodle]

@@CC-Cobalt-1043 ok

[@bakasaAzure]

how interesting, saludos desde chile :)

[@EmmaCruises]

Thank you! 😁❤️

[@TheFerryGuy]

It was Aalborg Shipyard That helped that Build the 2 frist og the funnels for The Ms Tropicale And The Ms Holiday,

[@johnthomson6507]

Bit ot disney has cruise ships?

[@davidbach7003]

I remember a cruise ship that had a jet engine on the top of the stack. Can't remember which one.

[@noobplayer_23]

Queen Mary 2 an ocean liner

[@JohnnyT002]

I remember the original Mardi Gras. That was the first time I went on a Cruise Ship.

[@EmmaCruises]

Sounds good! 😁🥳

[@johneldard6673]

Carnival is our favorite 🥔

[@avi_perosn3931]

Another thing I noticed is carnival normally has a very different design that the other ships

[@EmmaCruises]

Yep! 😀❤️

[@avi_perosn3931]

@@EmmaCruises I’m just wondering what design

[@niuhuskieguy]

I liked how their older ships all had a unique interior despite being in the same class. You knew you were on a different ship. I am a little sad they have gone away from that. I definitely think it was something that made their ships unique.

[@albertss_rblx8414]

Interesting

[@EmmaCruises]

Thank you! 😁❤️

[@whitestguyuknow]

1:19 "And inside is... A hidden Mickey!"

[@EmmaCruises]

😂😂😂

[@talanthompson9781]

The funnel came from ss france. Owned by the French line and was bought by carnival and renamed Norway:D

[@EmmaCruises]

Yes 😀👏🏼

[@Garyinhou]

For Carnival’s newest ships have one-upped by going to much cleaner LNG fuel.. the dark plumes are gone on these.. as is the occasional soot for those on aft decks

[@lvthud]

Hang on, the France did not have a lot of operators, she had CGT, NCL, BSL and HSDPL. The last two were one month apart and both companies that operate scrapping yards. So it had two companies that operated ships for actual use. Take the Stockholm, she had 10 operators and 12 owners.

[@EmmaCruises]

Ooo very interesting, thanks for sharing 😀❤️

[@alexcruzellor9247]

Actually the Titanic had three real funnels which were funnels 1,2 and 3 and the fake one was the 4th one.

[@EmmaCruises]

Yess, that’s right 😀❤️

[@reddy2travel492]

Carnival's funnel looks iconic, but it also looks cheap, it does not give an elegant look or feel, so much for that. Excellent research compared to other Cruise KZbinrs who simply report stuff you already know. LOL

[@EmmaCruises]

I love this kinda stuff 👏🏼

[@Tarathathe77wookiee]

The funnel looks like a Whale Tail to me.

[@EmmaCruises]

It does! 😀💕

[@matthewbanta3240]

If Carnival patented their funnel design in 1984 then that patent should have expired by now. US patents only last 20 years and they cannot be extended. I suppose they could have improved upon the 1984 design and gotten additional patents. That would mean that other cruise ships could use the 1984 design but not the newer designs Carnival uses now. But as everyone has no doubt figured out by now, the Carnival funnel design is more for marketing. So in that case they could get a copyright that could still be in effect since US copyrights last an insane amount of time (thank Walt Disney for that.) On a side note, I wonder what the patent says about prior art if the basic design had already been used on a previous cruise ship. If they got a patent then they must have been convinced that their design was significantly different from the other design.

[@EmmaCruises]

Yessss 😀❤️

[@joethecomputerguy1]

1982. That would be before Emma was even a twinkle in her parents eyes...

[@Wicc_234]

What if you fall inside

[@EmmaCruises]

What? 😅

[@dgk42]

I'd seen that funnel design, but hadn't attributed it to just one brand. But advertising, or anything like that, is lost on me :)

[@EmmaCruises]

Haha it’s all smart planning! 😂💕

[@dgk42]

@@EmmaCruises I'm new to your channel, but one thing I'm picking up on is that planning, by companies, staff, and cruisers, has to be smart in order for the cruise experience to work well. Oh, thankyou for an excellent useful channel.

[@jenf847]

Have you sailed on a Carnival ship? They've been doing some really great promotions lately.

[@EmmaCruises]

Nope! I tried but it was cancelled and I haven’t found another replacement. I’d like to though 😀❤️

[@SatNavDan]

"France"/"Norway" were the only names she carried in passenger service. She had a different name when she went to the graveyard. I'd heard the Carnival ships were originally meant to be submersibles where they would travel underwater with only the tip of the funnel visible above the waves to frighten people on the beaches.

[@Chuckitallandgo]

Baked Potato Gnocchi

[@EmmaCruises]

🤤🤤🤤

[@markeaston7353]

On cruise ships I have encountered fake cocktails which have too little alcohol to qualify as a cocktail, but fake funnels? What next... Interesting video thanks.

[@EmmaCruises]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cypeman8037]

Bow....🎀....😂😂😜😜

[@aviationgaming1564]

It’s not just a funnel it’s a *whale tail*

[@EmmaCruises]

Haha! 😉💕

[@dieselyeti]

Kinda funny to hear somebody talk about cruise ship design but pronounce bow as "bo".

[@Olbear040]

Amazing potatoes

[@EmmaCruises]

🤤🤤🤤

[@carultch]

The Greek letter "Chi" that looks like an X, is pronounced "kai". Rhymes with high, and starts with a k-sound.

[@EmmaCruises]

Ooo I’ve never heard it pronounced like that, I did a maths degree at university and they always said like cheeeee.... so that’s where I got that from; lots of x’s there 😂👏🏼

[@carultch]

​@@EmmaCruises Maybe a regional thing. I think the kai pronunciation is based on ancient Greek, while the modern name might rhyme with tree. In any case, the sound it makes is like the German ch, that is approximated as a k in English.

[@EmmaCruises]

@@carultch Aha yeah maybe! :D

[@karenharris3183]

it the exhaust oh . ok

[@ezwa29]

"Every Disney cruise ship has a fake funnel, inside you'll actually find a teen club." - Great solution imagining the smell there...

[@EmmaCruises]

🤣🤣🤣

[@tedcook5197]

I believe the Greek x is pronounced "ki" (rhymes with guy).

[@EmmaCruises]

Yeah maybe, the way I said it is how we did at university so that’s where that came from but could be totally wrong 😂❤️

[@samgrainger1554]

If God has a plan I'm puzzled as to why it involves me learning about cruise ship funnels

[@EmmaCruises]

Hahaha!!! So that you can meet me. Hello 🤣

[@paulmullen745]

Carnival one cruise line I'll never use.

[@trentduggan5650]

It's a like a tails from some private jets

[@ElloImNoodle]

Guess if you’ve never been on carnival you can say you’ve been on carnival luminosa

[@RomainSandt]

LOL the France probably is the best looking Cruise ship in history but you found the rare photos it doesn't look great. The France has a great and sad story.

[@EmmaCruises]

Haha! I need photos in public domain to use 😂👏🏼 Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@RomainSandt]

@@EmmaCruises I don't care about cruising in ships like that. No idea why you ended up in my recommendations. But I find your content enjoyable. The only ships we see on our waters... Are from Ponant. Very different from Royal Caribbean.

[@timotnah3664]

Hey Emma, intersting video, thanks. I like your channel but there is one issue which I would appreciate you adressing some time: working conditions of the crew. I know, difficult stuff, but surely people would like to know which cruiseline to choose in the light of crew happiness and working conditions. Just an idea... Go Emma Go!

[@EmmaCruises]

Hey Tim! I’d love to know more about crew life. 😀💕

[@davidbach7003]

There is a book about that called Cruise Confidential

[@Graygeezer]

Not a fan of the whale tail funnel. I’ve had an aft balcony stateroom on Carnival, the funnel “wings” did nothing for sending the fumes away.

[@EmmaCruises]

Aha interesting! Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

[@75Froggie]

Pedantic moment. χ (Xi) is pronounced like the ch in "Bach" or "Loch," not as is "chair." Spelled "chi" but pronounced "kai" in English. American college social sororities and fraternities, collectively referred to as Greek life, and academic fraternities are designated by Greek letters. They do not exist in the UK, but are a huge part of college culture in the US. Thus Americans, although not as widely fluent as you Brits in the Greek language or any languages other than English and Spanish, know their Greek letters!

[@EmmaCruises]

Haha! I’m just basing it off what my lecturers said at university 😀❤️

[@NCC1371]

That funnel is an aesthetic crime against humanity.

[@EmmaCruises]

Hmm 🤣🤣🤣

[@NCC1371]

@@EmmaCruises it makes the ship look like it’s got on one of those dopey propeller hats.