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Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, enough for 1178 people. The boat was designed to carry 32 lifeboats but this number was reduced to 20 because it was felt that the deck would be too cluttered.

Titanic also carried 3500 lifebelts and 48 life rings; Useless in the icy water. The majority of passengers that went into the sea did not drown, but froze to death. 30 people survived the disaster by standing on the upturned boat.

* 14 wood lifeboats each 30'0" long by 9'1" by 4'0" deep with a capacity of 65 persons each.
* 2 wood cutter 25'2" long by 7'2" by 3'0" deep with a capacity of 40 persons each.
* 4 Englehardt collapsibles boats 27'5" long by 8'0" by 3'0" deep with a capacity of 40 persons each.

All lifeboats were fitted with Murrays disengaging gear to simultaneously free both ends. The lifeboats were stowed on hinged wood chocks on the top Deck.

Lifeboat 1 carried 12 peole
Lifeboat 2 carried 17 ppl.
Lifeboat 3 'carried 31
Lifeboat 4 carried 37
Lifeboat 5 carried 33
Lifeboat 6 carried 23
Lifeboat 7 carried 26
Lifeboat 8 carried 27
Lifeboat 9 carried 31
Lifeboat 10 carried 30
Lifeboat 11 carried 35
Lifeboat 12 carried 19
Lifeboat 13 carried 47
Lifeboat 14 carried 39
Lifeboat 15 carried 43
Lifeboat 16 carried 28
Collapsible A carried 13
Collapsible B carried 15
Collapsible C carried 42
Collapsible D carried 22