Titanic Lifeboats

RMS Titanic

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[toacamater]

Sometimes we all have to think, even if the ship had enough lifeboats to fit the ship's passenger capacity, The same death toll would of occurred. When Titanic's bridge plunged beneath the sea at around ten past two on April the 15th, they failed to launch the remaining two collapsible's in time. They failed to launch all the 20 boats provided on that voyage. If the 40-60 lifeboat plan was put into practice then we would of had over 20 boats going down with the ship.

[Aaron1912]

I think more people would have died if Titanic had enough lifeboats. It took 30 minutes for the crew to uncover and prepare the lifeboats. If Titanic had double or triple the amount of lifeboats then this process would take over an hour, perhaps two and the ship would almost be sunk by then. The crew would be more spread out so it would take longer to lower each one. Passengers had to row because there weren't enough seamen. If there were more lifeboats then who would row them?

[CarlosBcn1989]

2nd song?

[Aaron1912]

I can't remember. I think it was a french song called 'Old Cafe'

[dinoships]

does anyone know what documentry this is from and what happened to the ones like this that showed scenes from titanic 1997

[Aaron1912]

I got it from a PC CD rom documentory called James Cameron's Titanic Explorer. I bought it in 1998 so I don't know if it's still being sold today, perhaps on ebay.

[Chiups9]

Murdoch was really an hero. I mean, the man launched almost half of its boats while it was only launched one lifeboat in the Port side. Wau! And the only ones oveloaded were on his side! Murdoch was one of the biggest heros of that night.

[shortyisme]

no..you dont care. we all plenty care. apparently you dont have the heart enough to care.

[Teritus911]

@CJCody2006 Not necessarily, but most likely. The passengers would have to be more alerted in that scenario though; here they weren't and that's why they were only lowered with 12 or so because there just simply wasn't enough time left. The davits would perhaps making lowering a little faster, but getting all the passengers inside the boats was the problem.

[applefan2151]

This is what happens when selfishness, laziness, stupidity and simply bad luck are put together.

[CJCody2006]

@toacamater Not necessarily. It would have all depended on how the boats were stored. If they had used the large gantry davits suggested by Andrew Carlisle, the boats could most likely have been lowered and launched faster. Even if they had just used more of the Welin Davits, it seems likely that a vast majority of the boats could have been used. For example, Lifeboat 2 was launched at 1:45 that night, and then Collapsible D was launched using the same set of davits just 20 minutes later.

[Teritus911]

@lisstina90 No, that was Fifth Officer Lowe. Lightoller couldn't go back because he was on an upturned boat and there weren't enough spaces for many more.

[lisstina90]

@croteam3

But Lightoller was the only one to go back to rescue people out of the water. Even if he waited too long, he is one of the heroes of Titanic.

[lisstina90]

Everyone! Grab a door each and try to stay afloat!!

[lisstina90]

If all lifeboats had been loaded with their full capacity, 450 more people would have survived. And if they had all been overloaded like Murdoc did with 70 people in the boats, that would make another 85 people. 535 people that could have been saved, imagine that

[lisstina90]

@Aaron1912

Remember, the reason why everything was taking such a long time was mostly because nobody was given a clear order of what to do. Captain Smith knew that there was not enough lifeboats, and the knowledge that so many was going to die put him in a shock. If there had been enough lifeboats, maybe the knowledge that everyone actually could be saved would have made him take a stand immideatly and a lot more would have survived.

[zoby68]

All the ships officers had to obey Mr. Murdoch because he was titled 1st officer