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Originally Posted by Yoriyn
You right. you can't see a ship above 10km but smoke. So it is realistic.
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Not true. For a 2-meter tall man standing on a 2-meter platform, the horizon is only 8 km away. But if the ship he's looking for has a mast height of 30 meters then the lookout will be able to see the ship at a distance of 19 km. A battleship with a mast height of 60 meters will be visible at a distance of 26 km. And that's not smoke, that's the masthead.