only if you are going to use it.
The reason to know that capacity of a lifeboat is that if you should happen to be in a sinking ship and the lifeboats are being boarded, you will be able to tell when a particular lifeboat is full, and if it is, rather than trying to board it, you will look for a different lifeboat. If lifeboats are overloaded, then they too will be unsafe and may also sink, which defeats the purpose.
There were a combined 958 seats on the lifeboats.
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.
There were 20 lifeboats and that was only enough for half of the ship's maximum capacity.
Boatage is the total capacity of boats, as of lifeboats on a ship.
The number of people that lifeboats could have saved if filled to capacity depends on the specific incident and the total capacity of the lifeboats available. For example, during the sinking of the Titanic, the lifeboats could accommodate about 1,178 people, but only a fraction of that number were actually utilized. In similar maritime disasters, lifeboat capacity is often underutilized due to panic, disorganization, or lack of training. Therefore, maximizing lifeboat capacity could significantly increase survival rates.
The full sized lifeboats could hold 65 people and the collapsible lifeboats could hold 40 people.
About 1,200
1,228 if all boats were filled to capacity.
about 40 to 50 people
The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats with a total seating capacity of 1,178 people
The lifeboats on Titanic were not filled to capacity but they did hold 712 survivors.