(Due to copyright restrictions these may not be visible in all countries.) The original articles in German can be read online at the HathiTrust site: The second article has plans and several photos of a later version of the Engelhardt, as well as two photos showing the Olympic's enlarged boat outfit installed during her 1912-13 refit. The first article describes in considerable detail the construction of these boats. Two articles describing Engelhardt boats were published in the German journal Schiffbau. The Titanic Engelhardts were responsible for saving many lives at her sinking, despite difficulties encountered in launching them. To learn more, click here for our comprehensive guide to the Titanic.The Titanic and Olympic (as built) each carried four collapsible boats of the Engelhardt type in addition to their conventional wooden lifeboats. This article is part of our larger selection of posts about the Titanic. 30 people survived the disaster by standing on the upturned boat. Collapsible lifeboats A and B were not launched but floated away as the water washed over the ship. As a result, there was insufficient time to successfully launch all the Titanic lifeboats. The inquiry was concerned that there was a delay of more than an hour between the time of impact and the launching of the first lifeboat – number 7. Many people believed that Titanic was not actually sinking but that the call to the Titanic lifeboats was actually a drill and stayed inside rather than venture out onto the freezing deck. There should have been a lifeboat drill on 14th April, but the Captain canceled it to allow people to go to church. Many people were confused about where they should go after the order to launch the lifeboats had been given. The majority of passengers that went into the sea did not drown, but froze to death. Titanic also carried 3500 lifebelts and 48 life rings Useless in the icy water. (questions 13883 – 13910) Lifeboat number 6 was designed to hold 65 people. When asked if the crew member in charge of lifeboat number six was told to return to pick up survivors, the inquiry was told that the crew member was told to stay close to the ship. Lightoller admitted that he should have made some arrangement for the boats to be filled once they were afloat. He was questioned as to whether he had arranged for more people to be put into the boats once it was afloat. Lightoller believed that it would be impossible to fill the boats to capacity before lowering them to sea without the mechanism that held them collapsing. When questioned about the filling of lifeboat number six, Lightoller testified that the boat was filled with as many people as he considered to be safe. They had been tested n Belfast on 25th March 1912 and each boat had carried seventy men safely. The boat was designed to carry 32 lifeboats but this number was reduced to 20 because it was felt that the deck would be too cluttered.Īt the British investigation, Charles Lightoller as the senior surviving officer was questioned about the fact that the lifeboats were not filled to capacity. Titanic’s lifeboats were situated on the top deck. The existing Board of Trade required a passenger ship to provide lifeboat capacity for 1060 people. The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, enough for 1178 people. He believed that if there had been fewer lifeboats then more people would have rushed to the boats and they would have been filled to capacity thus saving more people. Sir Alfred also stated that he felt that if there had been fewer lifeboats on Titanic then more people would have been saved. That it would be impossible for crew members to be able to load more than sixteen boats in the event of a disaster.That the provision of lifeboats should be a matter for the ship owners to consider. Sir Alfred gave a number of reasons for this (question 22875):ĭue to advancements that had been made in shipbuilding it was not necessary for boats to carry more lifeboats.vThe latest boats were stronger than ever and had watertight compartments making them unlikely to require lifeboats at all.vSea routes used were well-travelled meaning that the likelihood of a collision was minimal.vThe latest boats were fitted with wireless technology. At the British Inquiry into the Titanic disaster Sir Alfred Chalmers of the Board of Trade was asked why regulations governing the number of lifeboats required on passenger ships had not been updated since 1896.
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