Because most of the crew members were worried that too much weight would cause the lifeboats to buckle (start going under the water)
Women and Children entered the lifeboats first.
The lifeboats werent full on the Titnaic because they were concerned they couldnt carry the weight and also the first class passengers refused to sit with 3rd class passengers
Because there weren't enough lifeboats on the ship to hold every single person on board, and the lifeboats werent even filled to full capacity, all made to hold 60 men but some were only filled with 12 people.
Most lifeboats have a small compartment containing a few bottles of fresh water and some cookies and maybe a few other small snacks, but they werent made to last long.
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.
A number of the crew were not adequately trained in evacuation procedures. They were worried that the lifeboats are not able to handle the weight of a full capacity of passengers.
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The full sized lifeboats could hold 65 people and the collapsible lifeboats could hold 40 people.
There should have been at least 20 lifeboats and the lifeboats the titanic released that night where not all the way full so a lot of people died more than necessary.
1-2 lifeboats (not quite sure sorry) went back and found around 6 people still alive in the frozen water. The sad thing is that only 1-2 went back and some of the lifeboats were not full and there would not be enough spaces for all of the passengers even if the lifeboats were full.