around 20 or 15
Titanic carried 20 lifeboats and they could hold 52% of the people on board. That was more lifeboat capicity than the law at the time required!
The full sized lifeboats could hold 65 people and the collapsible lifeboats could hold 40 people.
There were 712 survivors in Titanic's lifeboats.
The lifeboats on Titanic were not filled to capacity but they did hold 712 survivors.
This is more of a random fact, but the reason why there weren't enough boats on the Titanic was because a few years before a boat had sunk and there were too many life boats, so the designers only outfitted life boats on the Titanic for decoration more than anything else, as they thought it would never sink. The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, it was eventually paired down to twenty. Lifeboat number 6 was designed to hold 65 people. For more info visit the link below.
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Titanic carried 20 lifeboats and they could hold 52% of the people on board. That was more lifeboat capicity than the law at the time required!
There were 712 people in the lifeboats when Titanic sank.
Steel lifeboats can only hold up to six to eight people, but most lifeboats can hold a lot more than that. :D
The full sized lifeboats could hold 65 people and the collapsible lifeboats could hold 40 people.
There were 712 survivors in Titanic's lifeboats.
The lifeboats on Titanic were not filled to capacity but they did hold 712 survivors.
I believe 15 or 20
there were not enough to hold all the passengers
This is more of a random fact, but the reason why there weren't enough boats on the Titanic was because a few years before a boat had sunk and there were too many life boats, so the designers only outfitted life boats on the Titanic for decoration more than anything else, as they thought it would never sink. The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, it was eventually paired down to twenty. Lifeboat number 6 was designed to hold 65 people. For more info visit the link below.
there were 16 lifeboats when it could hold 48
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.