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Titanic History: The Truth (Page 7)
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What was Titanic? R.M.S (aka Royal Mail Steamer/Steamship) Titanic was an ocean liner that sailed from April 10th 1912 at Southampton, England to what was intended to be New York City, but sank on April 14/15th 1912. She was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was intended to be part of a trio of sister ships for White Star Line. Fact #7: Lifeboats As their name implies, lifeboats were the means to save passengers, though back in Titanic's day they weren't necessarily the primary focus. After all, ships like Titanic didn't need more than 16 lifeboats if they were at least 10,000 GRT. Titanic actually exceded the Board of Trade's regulations at the time, but only launched 18 of the 20 available. 16 of Titanic's boats were on the edges of the Boat Deck in groups of 4 with 2 collapsables on either side of Titanic's first funnel and 2 emergency cutters already swung out in front of the first four lifeboats on either side near the bridge. The boats were numbered odd (1, 3, 5, 7, etc) on the right side and even (2, 4, 6, 8, etc) on the left side with the collapsables named A and B respectively. Each lifeboat was around 30 feet in length with most of them being able to carry 65 passengers each. Their total was around half the number passengers and crew Titanic was carrying. The fate of the lifeboats is currently unknown as Carpathia only picked up passengers and none were carried to Olympic during her refit. Sources https://rms-titanic-1912.fandom.com/wiki/Lifeboats_of_the_Titanic https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/lifeboat-specifications.html |