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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

I had not realized that the cruiser Exeter originally had raked funnels

I only realized definitively, from viewing the pictures on World War 2 Cruiser Operations, that the British cruiser Exeter had raked funnels. You can see, from the picture at Port Stanley, in late 1939, that her funnels were raked. In the picture after the long repair and modernization up to March 1941, that she seems to have emerged with vertical funnels (or else the steam pipes make it appear that way). The almost dark silhouette picture from earlier really makes the superstructure look light and the funnels seem slim and raked. If she really did have raked funnels, it must have been slight, compared to the York, her half-sister.

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