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The lifeboats bore the name "S.S. Titanic " on a plaque mounted at the other end of the boat. [1] Titanic had 20 lifeboats of three different types: 14 clinker-built wooden lifeboats, measuring 30 ft (9.1 m) long by 9 ft 1 in (2.77 m) wide by 4 ft (1.2 m) deep. Each had a capacity of 655.2 cubic feet (18.55 m 3) and was designed to carry 65 people.
Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship Titanic. It was the fifth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on 14 April 1912 . With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night.
Deaths. 1,490–1,635. RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) [a] on 14 April.
Harold Bride. Harold Sydney Bride (11 January 1890 – 29 April 1956) was a British merchant seaman and the junior wireless officer on the ocean liner RMS Titanic during her ill-fated maiden voyage. After the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11:40 pm 14 April 1912, Bride and his senior colleague, Jack Phillips, were responsible for relaying CQD ...
SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship. She is thought to have been the only ship to see the Titanic, or at least her rockets, during the sinking, [2][3] but despite being the closest ship in the area, the crew took no action to assist. The United States Senate inquiry and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking both ...
Titanic. Lord Mersey presided over the inquiry. The sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 resulted in an inquiry by the British Wreck Commissioner on behalf of the British Board of Trade. The inquiry was overseen by High Court judge Lord Mersey, and was held in London from 2 May to 3 July 1912. The hearings took place mainly at the London ...
Max: 23 kn (43 km/h; 26 mph) Capacity. 2,453 passengers and 874 crew (3,327 in total) Notes. Lifeboats: 20 (sufficient for 1,178 people) RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States.
Illustration of the sinking of the Titanic. Andrews and Ismay were present at the launch of Boat No.7, and they moved on to help at boat No.5. Fully aware of the short time the ship had left and of the lack of lifeboat space for all passengers and crew, he urged people into the lifeboats in the hope of filling them with as many people as possible.