Eastbourne ship "fire" - for Bik
By franl155
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During a series of comments on someone’s photo, Bik said he used to be a sailor, and I said that maybe he could explain something I’d seen at Eastbourne – a ship venting smoke, looking as though it were on fire. He asked for details as to the kind of ship, but I’ve only just found the photos.
I don’t know if the ship in the first pic is the same as the others – obviously, the smoke stopped me comapring outlines!
It did look rather dramatic – someone at the hotel said that ships “often” did this sort of thing but didn’t know why.
The first pic was one of a series of “general beach” pictures; the other two were the next day, when I looked out of the hotel window and saw what seemed to be a ship on fire, and dived for my camera.
You can see how much I zoomed in for the third picture by the size of the date
23 Feb, 2012
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sootremoval of funnel or sootremoval of boiler funnel or start engine to departure.
The ship engine use have fuel oil.
23 Feb, 2012
to do any sootremoval in a ship we use overheating steam.
thats why you see so much fume
23 Feb, 2012
thanks for the photos you remind me a lot from ships
23 Feb, 2012
interesting :o)))
23 Feb, 2012
Thanks, Bik
Well, that's one way to sweep the chimney! Obviously, not knowing the type of ship, or of engine, or of fuel, we can't know for sure, but at least Bik gave several possible causes to explain it - now we can take our pick *s*
23 Feb, 2012
the ship looks like a cargo one. You can see the cranes on the deck(4 of them)
24 Feb, 2012
I'll have to zoom in a lot more than I did before - hadn't noticed. but they, you know what to look for
24 Feb, 2012
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