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More than 1,500 lives were lost -- but some argue that could have been avoided. According to a recent post on Reddit , another ship was close by and could have saved the doomed passengers.
The United States Senate inquiry and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking both concluded that many or all of the lives lost could have been saved, had Californian responded promptly to the Titanic 's distress rockets. [4]
The shortage of lifeboats was not due to a lack of space; Titanic had actually been designed to accommodate up to 64 lifeboats [5] – nor was it because of cost, as the price of an extra 32 lifeboats (when it could have even held an extra 48) would only have been some $16,000, a tiny fraction of the $7.5 million that the company had spent on ...
If Titanic was as far from the Californian as Lord claimed Morse signals would not have been visible. A reasonable and prudent course of action would have been to awaken the wireless operator and to instruct him to attempt to contact Titanic by that method. Had Lord done so, it is possible he could have reached Titanic in time to save ...
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 Attorney General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, presented the inquiry with a list of 26 key questions to be answered. When news of the disaster reached the UK government the responsibility for initiating an inquiry lay with the Board of Trade, the organisation responsible for British maritime regulations and whose inspectors had certified Titanic as seaworthy before her maiden voyage.
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:
He had been with the ship during its trial voyages to test the ship's seaworthiness and the final journey from its place of construction in Belfast. The White Star Line , however, decided that with the Titanic 's sister ship, the RMS Olympic , currently undergoing layovers, to have the Olympic 's Chief Officer , Henry Wilde take the position ...