I have a feeling that the ME stack is a single larger one fwd of these and
obscured.
Since it's Freeport, there's a pretty good chance this is a tanker which
could mean that she's using electric motors for cargo pumps.
This would account for the rather large triple exhaust stacks .... big
generators.
BG Really unimportant ..... just one of the many "checks" I make when
sizing up a ship.

otn

"Matt Colie" wrote in message
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Well OTN,
No telling these days. She appears to be some kind of a bulk hauler. She
could have 3 engines geared to a shaft, or two geared to a shaft and a
boiler for auxiliary stuff and that is just the top left corner of a
matrix these days.

Azipod (big assed electric outboards) seem to be the provice of cruise
ships that spend too much time manuavering, but I am told they are being
used on tankers because then the main unit can also provide unloading
power.

Lots of lakers do something like this.

Matt Colie


otnmbrd wrote:
Either that ship has three monster generators, or one weird main
propulsion set-up.

otn

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...

A friend took this as we came into the Freeport jetties.

http://image54.webshots.com/154/8/67...3TDAGLs_ph.jpg

Narrow Jetties motering strait into the wind.

Joe
MSV RedCloud