Talk:Empress of Britain (1930)

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[edit] Not the Empress of Ireland's sister

This Empress of Britain is not the sister ship of the Empress of Ireland. There was another Empress of Britain that was launched in 1906. That ship was the Empress of Ireland's sister. Compared to the Empress of Britain in this article the Empress of Ireland had 2 funnels instead of 3, was about 1/3 as big and was launched 25 years earlier.

[edit] Third funnel

Is it true that the EofB's third funnel was like Titanic's fourth funnel - not a smoke-producing funnel? 04:06, 10 July 2006 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.117.4.237 (talk • contribs) .

I don't know for sure, but it's quite possible. A lot of ships were built like that, with a funnel as a dummy. Queen Mary was like that, with the third funnel being a dummy, and America had the first (of two) funnels as a dummy. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, as you can see in the side elevation in the article, the third funnel does not contain boiler trunks. The Queen Mary's third funnel was partly functional though. John.Conway 10:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)