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Yup. They even look similar in diameter. I tried to enhance the pix, but it isn't high enough res to work with. I suppose it would be easy to compare it to a sister ship to see if they are configured similarly.

If one other poster is right the hole is a discharge port and the soot a belch. The fwd hole to me looks like typical underway Discharge. The aft one may be for the emergency generator and as such would not be discharging unless it was in actual use. I don't know enough about the ship except to guess. It generally takes looking at piping plans to say what is where. Speaking from experience on tracking down discharge ports on a ship I can say sometimes even that isn't a simple task either.

92 posted on 07/15/2006 4:22:25 PM PDT by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)

I took a link to a web site that described the ship, ably provided by a brilliant FREEPER. It is equipped with two cruising diesels that can propel the ship slightly above 20 knots. The main engine is a gas turbine that makes 30,000 Hp. So I originally thought the sooty port at the stern was the impact point however it's possible that it is the starboard diesel exhaust. Need more info.