I think there was either sparks from gyrations from the collapse of the funnel itself, sparks from the break, or ignition of coal dust in the uptakes.
Coal and Sparks shooting out of the Funnels
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Well, I wasn't of course there but I'm pretty certain we would be dealing with an implosion rather than an explosion, followed by a fireball. The sparks visible from outside could be the "remnants" of the fireball that erupted below.
We do have eye-witness accounts of later steam shipwrecks that describe exactly such a sequence of events when cold water floods the boilers. I'll post a link to a part of an interview with a survivor of the SS Carl D.Bradley, where he describes this during the sinking of his ship:
We do have eye-witness accounts of later steam shipwrecks that describe exactly such a sequence of events when cold water floods the boilers. I'll post a link to a part of an interview with a survivor of the SS Carl D.Bradley, where he describes this during the sinking of his ship:
When the throttles are suddenly shut for a coal-fired steam boiler, there will be upset conditions that result in unburned fuel coming into the stack. That could well account for the visible sparks, etc.
