How many people were the 20 lifeboats of the Titanic inttended to hold?

Question

Out of the 2207 people aboard the Titanic only about 700 made it. But how many people were the lifeboats supposed to hold?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

There were 16 lifeboats that would each hold 65 people and 4 collapsible lifeboats that would hold an additional 138 people. The ship had a total lifeboat capacity of 1,178 persons. Her maximum capacity was 3,547 people. There were 2222 passengers and crew on board when Titanic left Southampton on 10 April 1912. There were 705 survivors and 1517 dead after the sinking. Most of the lifeboats were launched with less than maximum on board. Only 18 of the 20 lifeboats were launched before the titanic sank. Some people were able to climb out of the water into the unlaunched lifeboats when they floated off the deck. Only two lifeboats returned to look for survivors. They only saved six people. At the design stage Carlisle suggested that Titanic use a new, larger type of davit which could give the ship the potential to carry 48 lifeboats; this would have provided enough places for everyone on board. Carlisle told the official inquiry that he had discussed the matter with J. Bruce Ismay, White Star's Managing Director, but in his evidence Ismay denied that he had ever heard of this, nor did he recollect noticing such provision in the plans of the ship he had inspected. At the time, the Board of Trade's regulations stated that British vessels over 10,000 tons must carry 16 lifeboats with a capacity of 5,500 cubic feet, plus enough capacity in rafts and floats for 75% (or 50% in case of a vessel with watertight bulkheads) of that in the lifeboats. Therefore, the White Star Line actually provided more lifeboat accommodation than was legally required.

Answer 3

All the answers are right to a point. Except one more of the crew went down with the Titanic then were saved. The answer is 29% of all the passengers carried and not all the boats were fully loaded at time of launching.

The RMS Titanic Carried to correct amount of lifeboat for a ship her size according to British Maritime Law . A ship with the tonnage that Titanic had only carried enough life boats for 952 souls! The only ships on the Atlantic Run that could save more than half the people on board was a French Liner Le Provence which carried enough life boats for 82% of her passengers!

There had been a thought to add more lifeboats but White Star was in Financial problems and the increase in lifeboats would give the deck a cluttered look but they did add four collapsible boats on stored on the roof of the wheelhouse.

The sad fact is that any of the liners on the Atlantic Run in 1912 could have had a disaster like Titanic and a large number of people would have died. By 1912 just 18 years after the Board of Trade regulations ,that Titanic was built under,Had been written. Ships were just to far advanced for the regulations to stand.

Answer 4

If the crew had actually put the right amount of lifeboats on the Titanic, almost everyone could have been saved.

Answer 5

1500
they didnt have enough because the stupid builders thought the deck would look too cluttered, so they only put enough for half, thinking it was the unsinkable ship.

Answer 6

they were only for the crew, just like that ship that sank...i forget where this was(was on the news the other day), only the crew saved themselves