How many life boats were needed to save the people on the Titanic?

Answer 1

Alexander Carlisle proposed 64 lifeboats for the Olympic-Class vessels (including Titanic) which was reduced to 48, then to 32, but only 16 were installed (enough for only 1,178 people if all boats were filled). Thomas Andrews insisted on the extra 4 collapsibles which saved more people, including Bruce Ismay who escaped in collapsible C.

it was designed to have 32 life boats but then it was decided to have 20 because 32 life boats took up to much space on the deck.
At The Most 40 Life Boats At The Least 38
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 theshipbuilding 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 appealing
The lifeboats comprised 16 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each and 4 collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 persons each.

Answer 2

There were 1 actually Lifeboat, meant to hold 65 people, and 4 collapsible lifeboats, meant to hold 47, that is 1228, if they were fully loaded at the time. The Titanic was not fully loaded when she left Queenstown, Ireland, now Cobh, it was running at less than 2/3 capacity, at 2228 souls on board. A full load of crew and passengers on Titanic would have meant 3547 souls on board. For what it had at the time of sinking it would need a little less than double what it had, in reality, for the crew and passenger capacity she had she would need at least triple what she was carrying, which is 48 lifeboats and at most 12 collapsible lifeboats, that give space for 36 people, just to be on the safe side but could function with 1 less collapsible and still have more than enough room.

Answer 3

Titanic had 16 lifeboats
She would have needed 51 to save everybody so the 20 she did have were not even close to being enough.