HooYah Deep Sea
I wonder how they survived the stack gas that must have permeated the side of the ship and hanger bay. It must have been awful, especially if they were doing a full power run with all boilers on line.
Well, at Flight Quarters, they'd be pointed square into the wind and putting out turns for a 33 kts or so, which is about 55 feet per second.
Now, cuising at the IIRC 14 kts economic cruise speed with the wind just ahead of the beam probaly was less than desired.
And, there are few things as nasty and smokey as lighting off boilers., and wind abeam, that's going across the ship.
I have read that IJN really increased the stack uptake blowers to increase the "natural" draw of their lateral-mounted stacks. All to keep a venturi effect running in the stacks, the better to carry the stack and exhaust gasses away from the flight deck.
The US decided to just get the stacks as high above the waterline as possible, then steam out from under the plume.
However, physics is an uncompromising master, who is not denied. Those stack gasses expaned readily and rose rapidly in an expanding cone afte of the ship. Carrier aviators wind up having to interact with stack gasses on every appraoch on a conventionally-fueld carrier.