Most of them could fit over 60 people but a few had less capacity.
Titanic's fourteen standard lifeboats, at 30 ft. long, could fit about 70 people if need be. The two cutters and four Englehardts were slightly smaller and thus could carry slightly fewer people.
On the Titanic they were tested for the weight of 70 adult men. However, even at full capacity there would not have been enough room for every person aboard. Maritime law has changed since then and there must be enough room on lifeboats for every living soul aboard a ship.
First class passengers were the first allowed in the lifeboats with most lifeboats admitting women and children first then filling the remaining seats with any other first class men.
the people that were rich got on the lifeboats frist and there were 201 rich people but just childrenand woman got on the boat and man did not
Rich women and children were allowed on the lifeboats first then rich men and few poor people of any age or gender were taken onto lifeboats.
Women and children first, few men got in. Women and children first, few men got in.
Men wanted there wife's and kids to go on the boats and be saved before them because they wanted them to reproduce.
This is more of a random fact, but the reason why there weren't enough boats on the Titanic was because a few years before a boat had sunk and there were too many life boats, so the designers only outfitted life boats on the Titanic for decoration more than anything else, as they thought it would never sink. The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, it was eventually paired down to twenty. Lifeboat number 6 was designed to hold 65 people. For more info visit the link below.
The women and children were crammed into lifeboats and were saved. The men, however, stayed behind on the ship and drowned.
yes because in those times women were more important
Yes. There were stowaways on Titanic. There were several Chinese men hiding in the lifeboats at a time when the Chinese weren't even allowed in the US. All other survivors were accounted for as ticketed passengers.
174 third class men passengers survived. While 589 died, (Jack Phillips, crew, was the only crew member to let third class men on the lifeboats)