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Did the titanic have enough lifeboats to meet trade regulations?
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No. It was meant to have around Thirty but it only had about twenty five as they didn't want to take up "deck space".
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Were there enough life jackets for everybody on the titanic?
Not even close. She had 20 but mathematically, to fit everyone, she would have needed 51.There were not enough by half. Between the 20 lifeboats installed, there were seats enough for 1,178 people. As it is, there were 2,208 passengers and crew but she was still sailing light. The disparity between her capacity and lifeboat capacity was 2.369.Not even close. The disparity between her capacity and lifeboat capacity was 2.369. She also sailed at 60% of her capacity so if she were full, the death-toll would have been much higher.In the time of Titanic the number of lifeboats a ship needed was based on the tonnage. Titanic could legally sail with only enough lifeboat space for less that a third of the passengers. Titanic had enough lifeboats for a bit less than half so Titanic had more lifeboats that the law said she needed.The reason ships did not need lifeboats for all the passengers is because the transatlantic routes were heavily shipped and it was thought that a ship would always be close by and lifeboats would be used to ferry people between the two ships.The Titanic did have space for another row of lifeboats because the directors of the White Star Line did think that the law on the amount of lifeboats was going to be updated so they put in new davits that could hold another row of lifeboats so if it was updated they could keep the davits that were already on the ship.no they did not so it was women and children first.
How many people would have been saved if all lifeboats were on the TItanic?
Lol Depends how many more lifeboats were on the ship. The reason there werent enough lifeboats onboard was because mr Ismay (The builder of the ship) didnt want to put any more lifeboats on because it made the ship look ugly.
How many lifeboats were on the Titanic?
The Titanic was originally fitted with 16 davits, each with 4 lifeboats, which was more than enough for everyone on board. The White Star Line (Ismay) ordered the removal of three lifeboats per davit, leaving only 16 lifeboats, as the line claimed the full 64 lifeboats made the ship look bad. After the Titanic sank, her two sister ships, Olympic and Britannic, were both fitted with the full 64 lifeboats.There were 14 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each, 4 collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 persons each, and 2 rescue cutters with a capacity of 40 persons each, for a total of 20 lifeboats. There were also 3500 lifebelts aboard and 48 life rings, but they were useless in the icy water. Amazingly there were more lifeboats aboard than required by the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade only required enough lifeboats on board to hold 1,060 persons. Titanic's lifeboats held a capacity of 1,178 persons, more than required by law in 1912. This was because the lifeboat law was based on the ship's weight, not on the ship's number of passengers. Through this disaster, we learned that the laws need to be changed.Emergency Lifeboats x 2Wood cutter25 ft. 2 in. Long7 ft. 2 in. Broad3 ft. deep326 cubic ft.Capacity: 40 persons.Standard Lifeboats x 14Wood constructions30 ft. long9 ft. 1 in. Broad4 ft. deep655 cubic ft.Capacity: 65 persons.Englehardt Collapsible Lifeboats x 427 ft. 5 in. Long8 ft. broad3 ft. deep376.6 cubic ft.Capacity: 47 personsThe Titanic carried only about 20 lifeboats, or enough to save about 1/3 of the crew and passengers on board the boat. It was originally designed to carry 32 boats, but the number was reduced because designers felt that the deck would be excessively cluttered. The ship actually had enough davits, or lifeboat supports, to carry 64 lifeboats, but most of them remained unfilled.There was 14 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each, 4 collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 person each, and 2 rescue cutters with a capacity of 40 persons each, a total of 20 lifeboats. There was also 3500 lifebelts aboard and 48 life rings but they were useless in the icy water. Amazingly there were more lifeboats aboard the required by the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade only required enough lifeboats on board to hold 1,060 persons. Titanic's lifeboats held a capacity of 1,178 persons more then required by law in 1912. This was because the lifeboat law was based on the ship's weight not on the ship's amount of passengers. Through this disaster we learned that the laws need to be changed.she had 20 lifeboats. 16 wood 4 collapsibles. I listed all of them. Lifeboat #1-,#16, Collapsibles A,B,C,D.The lifeboats comprised 16 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each and four collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 persons each.18Titanic launched all of her twenty lifeboats when the ship sank (altho lifeboat D was a close one).Of the 19 boats that reached her, Carpathia lifted 13.Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, which wasn't enough to fit even half of all the passengers that were on boardTitanic is the only major vessel to sink after having discharged all of her life boats (Lusitania, for example, got off a few but dragged many others down with her). Therefore there is no lifeboats on the wreck of Titanic.Several davits, however, have been salvaged and are on display in the traveling Titanic Exhibition.The 20 lifeboats that ended up on board the luxury liner were approximately half the amount required to handle the potential evacuation of the more than 2,000 passengers and crew members onboard. While the managing director of the shipbuilding company, Harland and Wolff, wanted to have 64 lifeboats on board, the justification for omitting them was the concern, expressed by the Titanic's owner, that an excess of lifeboats would have made the ship less visually appealingTitanic had 20 lifeboats (for 2,208 passengers).
Why didn't they have more lifeboats on the Titanic?
It was widely believed to be unsinkable. The design and construction were supposedly such that the risk of sinking was considered virtually nil. See the Snopes page linked below.Not only did they not have enough life boats, but they were not filled properly. For example, lifeboat 2 had 28 people when it could hold 65.The life boats were actually designed to be able to be stacked inside of each other, but the people who put them on board thought that the deck would look too cluttered if they put the required number of life boats on board.there was not any space on the titanic to fit all the ship.!!!!Today, it seems baffling that the number of lifeboats on the Titanic met maritime standards. Representations about the Titanic's then-advanced design have been reduced to misleading sound bites and conflated with details of a strangely-prescient 19th century novel about a strikingly similar disaster befalling a purportedly unsinkable ship ("The Titan"). This has led to the meme that because the Titanic was considered "unsinkable," she didn't carry enough lifeboats.The Titanic was actually claimed to be disaster proof rather than unsinkable. The notion was that even if the Titanic sank, it would take so long to do so, and proceed in such a way, no lives would be lost apart from any lost in the initial collision, explosion or other incident leading to the event. Her sister ship, the Olympic, had collided with a Royal Naval warship and made it back to port. (The warship fared far worse.)The reason the Titanic's maiden voyage became a famous disaster nonetheless was because of lethal miscalculations in a literal, mathematical sense. Had the Titanic's structure coped with the impact as engineers were certain it would, the famous tilt into the ocean and rapid submersion would never have happened. Both the rate at which she sank, and as importantly the stability and level of the ship as she went down, would have been far less drastic.Because she was steaming through well-traveled waters, carrying flares and the most advanced distance communication equipment available, it was assumed that a number of other ships would be on the scene quickly after anything went so terribly wrong. In that case, there were more than enough lifeboats to transfer the passengers and crew.Summarily, the principal error in judgment was made when the engineers over-estimated the genius of their design. The rapid decay in the ship's viability was later traced to specific flaws in the compartmentation of its sub-structure. Loss of life was therefore inevitable absent the greater number of lifeboats that their calculations deemed a waste of space.Secondarily, they made the classic engineers' error of assuming that the interaction of human beings is purely mathematical. (Only military engineers are trained to cope with this under the rubric of the "fog of water.") Two series of stumbles resulting from human fallibility occurred that night. As well documented elsewhere, there was substantial confusion within the sea lanes leading to tragedies such as the nearest vessel either misinterpreting or ignoring the distress flares. Even more lives were lost as a result.Second, many life boats were launched hastily, with ample room left for other passengers. In fairness to the crew, which by accounts performed admirably, they had been trained to expect a rapid response from nearby vessels and had been told the ship would take long enough to sink that several trips would be both possible and necessary.Assigning either evil intent or pure stupidity as the cause of any disaster is tempting. It is comforting, in a way, as it removes the cause from the likes of ourselves and suggests such things are rare and avoidable. The truth makes such events even more tragic, yet more readily understandable.
Why did they not provide more lifeboats for the Titanic?
The problem was that there ware far too few of them. There were twenty aboard, although Titanic had the capacity to carry 48. The twenty lifeboats could only have carried 52% of Titanic's passengers, although when launched during the disaster many were woefully underfilled.
Did the titanic have enough lifeboats tomet the board of trade regulations?
The Titanic had more than enough life boats for safety regulations of the day.
What was the life boat issue during the titanic?
The issue is that there were not enough lifeboats. The Board of Trade regulations specified how many lifeboats must be carried on all types of ship, and the maximum size of ship listed was 10,000 tons. So the 46,000-ton Titanic had enough lifeboats for a 10,000-ton ship, which was enough to satisfy the regulations. They knew that but they said the Titanic was unsinkable and therefore would act as its own lifeboat.
Were there enough life jackets for everybody on the titanic?
Not even close. She had 20 but mathematically, to fit everyone, she would have needed 51.There were not enough by half. Between the 20 lifeboats installed, there were seats enough for 1,178 people. As it is, there were 2,208 passengers and crew but she was still sailing light. The disparity between her capacity and lifeboat capacity was 2.369.Not even close. The disparity between her capacity and lifeboat capacity was 2.369. She also sailed at 60% of her capacity so if she were full, the death-toll would have been much higher.In the time of Titanic the number of lifeboats a ship needed was based on the tonnage. Titanic could legally sail with only enough lifeboat space for less that a third of the passengers. Titanic had enough lifeboats for a bit less than half so Titanic had more lifeboats that the law said she needed.The reason ships did not need lifeboats for all the passengers is because the transatlantic routes were heavily shipped and it was thought that a ship would always be close by and lifeboats would be used to ferry people between the two ships.The Titanic did have space for another row of lifeboats because the directors of the White Star Line did think that the law on the amount of lifeboats was going to be updated so they put in new davits that could hold another row of lifeboats so if it was updated they could keep the davits that were already on the ship.no they did not so it was women and children first.
How many people would have been saved if all lifeboats were on the TItanic?
Lol Depends how many more lifeboats were on the ship. The reason there werent enough lifeboats onboard was because mr Ismay (The builder of the ship) didnt want to put any more lifeboats on because it made the ship look ugly.
How many lifeboats were on the Titanic?
The Titanic was originally fitted with 16 davits, each with 4 lifeboats, which was more than enough for everyone on board. The White Star Line (Ismay) ordered the removal of three lifeboats per davit, leaving only 16 lifeboats, as the line claimed the full 64 lifeboats made the ship look bad. After the Titanic sank, her two sister ships, Olympic and Britannic, were both fitted with the full 64 lifeboats.There were 14 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each, 4 collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 persons each, and 2 rescue cutters with a capacity of 40 persons each, for a total of 20 lifeboats. There were also 3500 lifebelts aboard and 48 life rings, but they were useless in the icy water. Amazingly there were more lifeboats aboard than required by the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade only required enough lifeboats on board to hold 1,060 persons. Titanic's lifeboats held a capacity of 1,178 persons, more than required by law in 1912. This was because the lifeboat law was based on the ship's weight, not on the ship's number of passengers. Through this disaster, we learned that the laws need to be changed.Emergency Lifeboats x 2Wood cutter25 ft. 2 in. Long7 ft. 2 in. Broad3 ft. deep326 cubic ft.Capacity: 40 persons.Standard Lifeboats x 14Wood constructions30 ft. long9 ft. 1 in. Broad4 ft. deep655 cubic ft.Capacity: 65 persons.Englehardt Collapsible Lifeboats x 427 ft. 5 in. Long8 ft. broad3 ft. deep376.6 cubic ft.Capacity: 47 personsThe Titanic carried only about 20 lifeboats, or enough to save about 1/3 of the crew and passengers on board the boat. It was originally designed to carry 32 boats, but the number was reduced because designers felt that the deck would be excessively cluttered. The ship actually had enough davits, or lifeboat supports, to carry 64 lifeboats, but most of them remained unfilled.There was 14 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each, 4 collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 person each, and 2 rescue cutters with a capacity of 40 persons each, a total of 20 lifeboats. There was also 3500 lifebelts aboard and 48 life rings but they were useless in the icy water. Amazingly there were more lifeboats aboard the required by the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade only required enough lifeboats on board to hold 1,060 persons. Titanic's lifeboats held a capacity of 1,178 persons more then required by law in 1912. This was because the lifeboat law was based on the ship's weight not on the ship's amount of passengers. Through this disaster we learned that the laws need to be changed.she had 20 lifeboats. 16 wood 4 collapsibles. I listed all of them. Lifeboat #1-,#16, Collapsibles A,B,C,D.The lifeboats comprised 16 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each and four collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 persons each.18Titanic launched all of her twenty lifeboats when the ship sank (altho lifeboat D was a close one).Of the 19 boats that reached her, Carpathia lifted 13.Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, which wasn't enough to fit even half of all the passengers that were on boardTitanic is the only major vessel to sink after having discharged all of her life boats (Lusitania, for example, got off a few but dragged many others down with her). Therefore there is no lifeboats on the wreck of Titanic.Several davits, however, have been salvaged and are on display in the traveling Titanic Exhibition.The 20 lifeboats that ended up on board the luxury liner were approximately half the amount required to handle the potential evacuation of the more than 2,000 passengers and crew members onboard. While the managing director of the shipbuilding company, Harland and Wolff, wanted to have 64 lifeboats on board, the justification for omitting them was the concern, expressed by the Titanic's owner, that an excess of lifeboats would have made the ship less visually appealingTitanic had 20 lifeboats (for 2,208 passengers).
Why didn't they have more lifeboats on the Titanic?
It was widely believed to be unsinkable. The design and construction were supposedly such that the risk of sinking was considered virtually nil. See the Snopes page linked below.Not only did they not have enough life boats, but they were not filled properly. For example, lifeboat 2 had 28 people when it could hold 65.The life boats were actually designed to be able to be stacked inside of each other, but the people who put them on board thought that the deck would look too cluttered if they put the required number of life boats on board.there was not any space on the titanic to fit all the ship.!!!!Today, it seems baffling that the number of lifeboats on the Titanic met maritime standards. Representations about the Titanic's then-advanced design have been reduced to misleading sound bites and conflated with details of a strangely-prescient 19th century novel about a strikingly similar disaster befalling a purportedly unsinkable ship ("The Titan"). This has led to the meme that because the Titanic was considered "unsinkable," she didn't carry enough lifeboats.The Titanic was actually claimed to be disaster proof rather than unsinkable. The notion was that even if the Titanic sank, it would take so long to do so, and proceed in such a way, no lives would be lost apart from any lost in the initial collision, explosion or other incident leading to the event. Her sister ship, the Olympic, had collided with a Royal Naval warship and made it back to port. (The warship fared far worse.)The reason the Titanic's maiden voyage became a famous disaster nonetheless was because of lethal miscalculations in a literal, mathematical sense. Had the Titanic's structure coped with the impact as engineers were certain it would, the famous tilt into the ocean and rapid submersion would never have happened. Both the rate at which she sank, and as importantly the stability and level of the ship as she went down, would have been far less drastic.Because she was steaming through well-traveled waters, carrying flares and the most advanced distance communication equipment available, it was assumed that a number of other ships would be on the scene quickly after anything went so terribly wrong. In that case, there were more than enough lifeboats to transfer the passengers and crew.Summarily, the principal error in judgment was made when the engineers over-estimated the genius of their design. The rapid decay in the ship's viability was later traced to specific flaws in the compartmentation of its sub-structure. Loss of life was therefore inevitable absent the greater number of lifeboats that their calculations deemed a waste of space.Secondarily, they made the classic engineers' error of assuming that the interaction of human beings is purely mathematical. (Only military engineers are trained to cope with this under the rubric of the "fog of water.") Two series of stumbles resulting from human fallibility occurred that night. As well documented elsewhere, there was substantial confusion within the sea lanes leading to tragedies such as the nearest vessel either misinterpreting or ignoring the distress flares. Even more lives were lost as a result.Second, many life boats were launched hastily, with ample room left for other passengers. In fairness to the crew, which by accounts performed admirably, they had been trained to expect a rapid response from nearby vessels and had been told the ship would take long enough to sink that several trips would be both possible and necessary.Assigning either evil intent or pure stupidity as the cause of any disaster is tempting. It is comforting, in a way, as it removes the cause from the likes of ourselves and suggests such things are rare and avoidable. The truth makes such events even more tragic, yet more readily understandable.
Why did they not provide more lifeboats for the Titanic?
The problem was that there ware far too few of them. There were twenty aboard, although Titanic had the capacity to carry 48. The twenty lifeboats could only have carried 52% of Titanic's passengers, although when launched during the disaster many were woefully underfilled.
Why did people not want to get into life boats in the Titanic?
Titanic was equipped with only 20 lifeboats. She had 14 regular lifeboats with a capacity of 65 people each, 2 emergency lifeboats (Boats 1 and 2, which were stowed in the swung-out position) with a capacity of 40 each, and 4 Englehardt collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 each. The collapsibles had wooden hulls, but with canvas sides that could be cranked up when needed. Collapsibles C and D were stowed inboard of Boats 1 and 2 at the very forward part of the Boat Deck and Collapsibles A and B were stowed upside down on the roof of the Officers' Quarters on either side of #1 funnel.There were 2228 passengers on the Titanic. Probably life boats were not made because people believed the ship was unsinkable and also because they wanted to make as much money as possible, so whoever could pay was cramped into the steerage.AnswerThere were 2,227 people on board, but the total capacity of the 16 lifeboats and 4 collapsible boats was 1,178 people, which was only sufficient for 52% of the passengers.There was a lack of lifeboats because of:Outdated maritime safety regulations : British Board of Trade laws stated that ships weighing more than 10,000 tons must carry at least 16 lifeboats with a capacity of 5,500 cubic feet - These regulations were based on the world's then-largest ship in 1890s.The total lifeboats of a ship were determined by the volume of the ship, i.e. the ship's GRT (Gross Registered Tons) and not by the total number of passengers and crew the ship could carry.the White Star Line's wish to leave the decks unobstructed so that the passengers could have better views,the White Star Line's wish to give the ship more aesthetics from an exterior view (for another example, the Titanic had 4 funnels, but the fourth funnel was a dummy which was added because "it made the ship look better.")the belief that in an emergency, Titanic's design would enable her to stay afloat long enough for her passengers and crew to be transferred safely to a rescue vessel.Never anticipating that everyone would have to be evacuated rapidly at the same time.
Why was the titanic formed?
Titanic was built to compete for the transatlantic trade of the high seas.
Why was he Titanic build?
Titanic (and Olympic) were built to compete in the lucrative transatlantic passenger trade.
What are some trade system regulations and restrictions?
Common trade system regulations and restrictions include tariffs, quotas, embargoes, exchange controls, and nontariff trade barriers
What is extralegal trade?
Trade that is not legal or not covered under existing regulations.
