A variation we sometimes saw, was the top dome of the cylinder parting from the seam. It was quite spectacular on one house the dome was about 25mm away from the rest of the cylinder held up on a column of water. It had exploded instead of imploding. But in those days a hot water tapping could be taken from the circulating pipes (Primaries) or virtually anywhere else on a cylinder beside the usual place at the top. It was very common in those days with coal fires to run the water off if it got too hot.
The problem was if the vent and cold feed where blocked in the roof space, you could still draw the expanded hot water off. Then when it stopped coming out the tap, if you turned the tap off the remaining hot water cooled and contracted sucking in the sides of the cylinder because it could not get air or water to fill the void when the water shrank from hot to cold. You could also get other problems as well. The cylinder cold feed often fed the cold sanitary ware in the bathroom before the same pipe went to feed the cylinder. The vent or expansion pipe often fed the bathroom and back Kitchen before venting over the tank or out onto the roof. The pipe work could run all over the place up and down in and out and all kinds. It was great fun but looking back highly dangerous.