Coral/Island Princess

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pmescala

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I live near the Port of LA and have been lucky enough to see the new Island Princess in port for the past few days. Does anyone know what the large, metal cylinders (which resemble aircraft turbine engines) attached to the sides of the funnel are? I have been trying to figure it out, but simply can't. I've never seen anything like it on other cruise ships...
 
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jhagen

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I think on one of the discussion topics on those cylinders it was mentioned that they were just decorations....
By the way it is final today for us. Have changed our Island Princess cruise from 2/4/04 to 10/27/03. Now only some 3 and 1/2 months to go. Had to take advantage of the reduced prices.....
Happy Cruisin'
 
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DJA

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I had also seen that comment a while ago that they were decorations, but they are in fact real. It has been reported by both Princess and General Electric as an innovation that created additional space within the ship for other facilities. I was on the Grand last month and I asked the Engineer about it, he also confirmed that they are real gas turbines up on the funnel.


This is the article that mentioned it when the Coral first came out.

http://www.princess.com/news/article.jsp?newsArticleId=na522
 
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pmescala

Guest
DJA:

Thanks for the information and article link. The turbines look too distinctive to be "decorative", besides, they look a bit odd, so odd that if there was no real use for them it wouldn't make sense to even put them there. This is extremely innovative engineering...cudos to Princess and GE for coming up with this idea. Thanks!
 
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DJA

Guest
Sorry, I re-read the post. The metal things are fake, but the gas turbines are up there in the funnel on the Coral & Island.
 
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