Lost Photos of the Titanic and The Stories Behind Them

The Stacks

The Titanic had four large stacks on top of the ship. This was to help ventilate the smoke from the furnaces through these funnels. When the water began to get into the ship, the firemen panicked about the reaction of the ice-cold water and the boiling hot furnaces. An explosion was avoided because they acted quickly to vent as much steam as possible from these stacks.

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