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Additionally, even if the ship did have more lifeboats, due to the laborous task of launching lifeboats using davits, there was only enough time to launch all but two boats before the ship began its final plunge. A total of 1,503 people lost their lives when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Many of them had not made it into a boat.
Titanic ' s Captain Edward Smith had shown an "indifference to danger [that] was one of the direct and contributing causes of this unnecessary tragedy." The lack of lifeboats was the fault of the British Board of Trade, "to whose laxity of regulation and hasty inspection the world is largely indebted for this awful tragedy."
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.
Harry Senior, one of Titanic ' s stokers, and second class passenger Charles Eugene Williams, who both survived aboard Collapsible B, stated that Smith [36] swam with a child in his arms to Collapsible B, which Smith presented to a steward, after which he apparently swam back to the rapidly foundering ship. Williams' account differs slightly ...
Just four days later, the Titanic’s maiden voyage was transformed into an international tragedy when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. April 14.
Titanic had been designed to accommodate up to 68 lifeboats [85] – enough for everyone on board – and the price of an extra 32 lifeboats would only have been some US$16,000 (equivalent to $505,000 in 2023), [5] less than 1% of the $7.5 million that the company had spent on Titanic.
Had the ship been equipped with enough lifeboats for passengers, or had fewer of the watertight compartments been breached, perhaps more lives could have been saved.” Skylar Baker-Jordan writes:
The Titanic 's recovered lifeboats. Alexander Carlisle, Harland and Wolff's general manager and chairman of the managing directors, 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 seats for everyone on board.