They were lowered to the water with people in them- less people than maximum capacity. People were trying so hard to get off quickly that not any were filled to the rim, which is likely the cause of so many deaths is the disaster.
Women and Children entered the lifeboats first.
There were numerous changes, Enough lifeboats for everyone aboard, ship were to go a further southern route on the atlantc,ships are to go slower in Ice Fields, they were to have more rockets and equipment on the Lifeboats!
Noone knows exactly but most likely the White Star Line, Titanics's parent company, quietly re-purposed them for another of their vessels.
Titanic could hold 46,000 tons of weight. Lifeboats don't way more then a few hundred pounds. If Titanic had 75 lifeboats, each one carrying 40 people, then 3000 people could have lived, titanic had a little more then 2200.Titanics lifeboats were estimated to carry as many as 70 people but the last one, lifeboats D fully had about 75 after taking off passengers from overturned lifeboat B.
The women and children were crammed into lifeboats and were saved. The men, however, stayed behind on the ship and drowned.
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