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I’m pretty sure the titanic didn’t have enough life boats before it hit the iceberg.
Now that I think about it, it may have also been designed in a way that would enable it to sink faster (not saying this was on purpose) considerably before even touching the water.
It had the number of lifeboats required at the time.
That’s because lifeboats on such a ship were intended to ferry passengers to other ships, making multiple trips. Nobody expected the largest ship in the world to go down in two and a half hours.
Which it did because of the specific gash it received in the collision. This may have had to do with the shape of the iceberg below the water line, as well as it being sighted late due to unique weather conditions.
It had more lifeboats than were required. The Board of Trade regulations simply hadn’t kept up with the rapid expansion in the size of vessels in the previous decades.
Not that it would have mattered, as they didn’t have enough time to properly launch all the boats they did have.
I am just now reading that the addition of four collapsible lifeboats was what went beyond requirements. Two of those boats were not "properly launched". Collapsible A was washed off the deck with a very few people aboard, and went into the water half submerged. Collapsible B had fallen upside down on the deck while being dismounted and subsequently abandoned, but it floated off (still inverted), and some crew were able to cling to it and survive.
Once "full", however, they had to shove their crewmates still in the water away to prevent it from capsizing.
Yup. Those collapsibles were stowed on the roof, with pulleys on the funnel guy wire to allow them to be lifted off. Either the crew didn’t know this or they couldn’t find the correct tackle for the operation.
The biggest issue seems to be that the passengers weren’t convinced the ship was actually going down, and were reluctant to sail the Atlantic on the tiny boats.