The aft end of a ship, the stern, will usually have a steering gear for each rudder. There will usually be mooring equipment on deck. Many ships have free-fall lifeboat davits mounted on teh stern as well. There will usually be an aft peak ballast tank.
Depends on the size and seating capacity of the lifeboat. And there's also a limit as to how much weight a lifeboat can hold
That totally depends on the size of the lifeboats. Small ones might fit 30, but the ones on some of the big cruise ships can fit 370+.
Violet Jessop (a first-class stewardess who survived on lifeboat 16) mentions in her journal that there was a ships cat named Jenny and that Jenny had a litter.
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2 in numbers or 10% of lifeboat capacity.
It depends on the size of the lifeboat, the amount of water it displaces, and how heavy the people are.
D9 was the lifeboat J.M.Brown escaped the Titanic on.
Free Fall - Robert Crais novel - has 304 pages.
1006
Woman and children.
100 people