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The tall wooden stacks towering above the boat are skeletal reproductions of the original chimneys. When Cairo sank, its smokestacks remained visible above the water, and a sister boat, the Pittsburg, knocked down Cairo's chimneys to hide the location of the sunken vessel. City Class gunboats looked so much alike that bands of different colors were painted on their chimneys to distinguish them, and Cairo had gray bands.
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