Calling all "Big 5" Tennessee-class & Colorado-class fans

[MartinJQuinn]

Thanks Jeff. I guess it was the incinerator then. From the port side it looked like the pipe went much farther forward.

[MartinJQuinn]

Found some additional photos, cropped them to show the forward funnel piping arrangement on BB-48. First one is from 1937, the second from 1939. Photos are from NARA II, via Roger Torgeson.

BB48 West Virginia 6Apr1937 80-G-466160_crop.jpg (45.52 KiB) Viewed 143 times

BB48 West Virginia 9Feb1939 80-G-466161-crop.jpg (71.32 KiB) Viewed 143 times

[MartinJQuinn]

Comparing the picture that Jeff posted (left) to the 1937 shot I posted (right), it does seem like that pipe from the incinerator to the funnel was modified at some point.