Lifeboats played a crucial role during the sinking of the Titanic on 14–15 April 1912.

Fascinating facts about the lifeboats on the Titanic, including how many were carried, how many were launched, and how many passengers and crew they saved.

The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, enough for 1178 people. The existing Board of Trade required a passenger ship to provide lifeboat capacity for 1060 people. Titanic’s lifeboats were situated on the top deck.

The lifeboats of the RMS Titanic played a crucial role during the tragic sinking on April 14-15, 1912. Constructed by Harland & Wolff at Queen’s Island, Belfast, these lifeboats were designed for maximum seaworthiness with a double-ended design and mounted on …

2019年6月13日 · STANDARD LIFEBOATS – Numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16. Designed by Harland and Wolff Chief Draughtsman Roderick Robert Crispin Chisholm, there were 14 standard wooden lifeboats each measuring 30′ 0″ long by 9′ 1″ by 4′ 0″ deep with a capacity of 65 persons each.

The RMS Titanic’s tragic sinking in 1912 exposed a critical flaw in maritime safety regulations: insufficient lifeboat capacity. This article explores the lifeboats of the Titanic, their capacity, and the consequences of this oversight.

Taylor highlights that the Titanic had room for up to 56 lifeboats instead of the 20 it carried. He argues for the necessity of revising lifeboat regulations to ensure sufficient capacity for every soul on board, combining lifeboats with large, unsinkable self-launching life rafts.

Titanic’s eight aft lifeboats saved more people on April 15, 1912, than the ship’s 12 forward boats. On the starboard side, about 213 passengers and crew escaped in aft Boats 9, 11, 13 and 15, whereas but 164 people made it off in forward Boats 1, 3, 5, 7, A and C.

The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the boats were constructed at the Harland and Wolff works in Belfast. The lifeboat davits were designed by Axel Welin and supplied by the Welin Davit Co.

The accounts of which passengers and crew were in which lifeboats which follow are based on research done by the author, as well as material presented in The Titanic Lifeboat Project, created by the late John Hennessey (http://www.keyflux.com/titanic/lifeboats.htm), and Titanic-Titanic.com (http://www.titanic-titanic.com/lifeboats.shtml), both ...