Why weren't the titanic lifeboats filled?

Answer 1

With perfect hindsight, we realize now that the boats were not filled because of the code of chivalry - women and children first - which meant that many men were denied, meaning only empty seats in many boats.

Some officers, however, issued orders for some boats to specifically leave seats to receive more passengers at lower landings, ,but nobody ever did. They simply dropped to the water and rowed away.

Answer 2

Ultimately, the lifeboats of Titanic were not filled because of the code of chivalry.

Instead of favoring women and children,if the personnel just filled the boats, more people would have been saved.

Some officers even launched a few with many empty seats instructing the seamen to pick up more passengers from lower entranceways, which noone did.

Answer 3

Officers did not know how long it took til the ship sank completely, so they had to rush to get people on the life boats. if they would have waited to get everybody on the lifeboats, they thought they wouldnt have had enough time and lose more lives.

Answer 4

They didn't fill up the boats on the Titanic because some people wanted extra room on the boats for themselves. They had paid to reserve a boat ahead of time and they only wanted a certain amount of people on it!

Answer 5

Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, enough for 1200 people.

With perfect hindsight, we realize now that the boats were not filled because of the code of chivalry - women and children first - which meant that many men were denied, meaning only empty seats in many boats.

Also, as the lifeboats were situated on the top deck and would have to be lowered past the lower decks, some officers issued orders for some boats to specifically leave seats to receive more passengers at lower landings, but nobody ever did. They simply dropped to the water and rowed away.

Also, many people thought the big ship would be its own lifeboat and simply didn't see the point at first in going aboard a small little boat in the middle of the atlantic. It seemed better to stay on the warm ship and await rescue from a nearby ship.

Also, officers did not know how long it would take the ship to sink completely, so they had to rush to get people on the lifeboats. They may have believed that in the circumstances there was not enough time to get everybody on the lifeboats so launched them with the people they had.

Also, there was supposed to be a lifeboat drill planned for April the 14th, the day before the sinking, was missed. Many believe that if the drill had taken place, some more lives may have been saved.

Answer 6

Not all the lifeboats were sent from Titanic full because one of the officers had an idea to discharge them immediately but to herd First-Class passengers down to lower gangway doors to make a water-evacuation - but that plan was not executed and 472 lifeboat spaces went unused.

Answer 7

Several reasons. Many of the crew members were concerned about the weight even though the lifeboats were designed to hold the weight of 70 men on each one. Also, because so many people panicked about the sinking they didn't know where to go.

Answer 8

The first lifeboats were not filled for several reasons: Nobody was sure Titanic was going to sink, and it seemed safer to stay on the vessel than to take seats on small boats.