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Posted on: 2004/11/10 12:15
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The lifeboats were always an interesting question. Andrews concerned about the lack of capacity went back to the drawing board and designed an improved boat davit that allowed each boat station to launch 3 to 4 lifeboats. Noone seemed certain afterward if the redesigned davits were actually installed or not but they are on the model of the ship in the White Star offices. The documentary I saw this on a few years back also covered the paper trail concerning the number of boats. There was a sincere push with Andrews leading it to put enough boats for everyone on the ship but red tape and desire not to 'clutter up' the boat deck seems to scuttled it.
The boats that went off half empty were really the fault of disorganization amoung the crew on the boat deck. Could they have gotten everyone off if the improved davits and extra boats were there? Hard to say, they would certianly have saved many more. The improved davits operated by swinging back in to hook up another boat then swing out again. A time consuming process. They didn't have time to launch the collasable boats at the end (Lightoller's crew literaly had the boat they were working on float off with them as the ship sank) so I think all other things being the same they wouldn't have managed to get all the boats away. However if the crew had been better organized and practiced at boat drills they might have. |
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Posted on: 2004/11/10 4:30
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that would be interesting :pint:
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Posted on: 2004/11/10 2:05
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yeah i have a list of how many people were in each boat
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Posted on: 2004/11/10 0:13
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Re: Not Enough Life Boats? | #3 |
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most of them werent even half full.
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Posted on: 2004/11/9 22:10
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every lifeboat on the titanic was loaded they just weren't loaded to capacity There was 20 life boats on titanic 2 emergency 14 wooden and 4 collapsibleQuote:
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Posted on: 2004/11/9 21:09
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Hey yall
I have a question about the number of life boats. All I've read and heard is that so many deaths were caused from the lack of life boats. That if there were enough for everyone, more lives would have been saved. I've yet to see anyone mention the fact that even with the number of life boats they had on Titanic that night, they still couldnt load them all. My question is how could anyone figure that if there were more boats on board, more lives could have been saved if they couldnt even load the ones they had? Sure, more lives may have been saved, but by only a few. What do yall think? Jessica |
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Posted on: 2004/11/9 20:27
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