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.
The lifeboats comprised 16 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each and four collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 persons each.
Typically, a lifeboat can fit over 60 people.
Titanic's lifeboats were tested with 70 men inside. Unfortunately the crew did not know this.
The Titanic carried 14 lifeboats with a capacity of 65 people each, and additionally had 4 collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 people each.
70 people could fit in one boat
Of the 2,208 people on board Titanic, 1,496 could not get into the lifeboats; 68%.
Many people died when the boat sank because the structure of the boat was not very solid and not well made.
2AnswerActually, about 711 people "survived". A few lost, so they were guessed as survived, and some escaped on lifeboats. The plot of the movie Titanic is completely fake, except for the boat sinking.
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710 out of 2,224 people survived
712 people survived the sinking of Titanic.
Of the 2,208 people on board Titanic, 1,496 did not get into lifeboats; 68%.
1,496 people died on Titanic.
70 people could fit in one boat
Enough to save a little less than 1,000 people.
Of the 2,208 people on board Titanic, 1,496 could not get into the lifeboats; 68%.
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In the Titanic each life boat could hold up to 6757564 people, so in my opinion the film is stupid as they didn't save everybody!
700 pepole
Most of them could fit over 60 people but a few had less capacity.
There were only 706 people who survived