Seated: Symons, Horsewell, Collins, Pusey. Middle Row: Hendrickson, Lady Duff Gordon, Francatelli, Sir Duff Gordon, Taylor. Survivors of the Titanic and Occupants of Lifeboat 1 Rescued by the Carpathia. The lifeboat's occupants had a group photograph taken on the Carpathia. The occupants of lifeboat 1 were rescued by the Carpathia shortly aft 4:10 am, the second lifeboat from the Titanic to be picked up. It was the fourth boat launched at about 1:05 am with only 12 people on board (2 Women and 10 Men), representing 30% of her capacity of 40 people. Lifeboat 1 turned out to be the omen of what would transpire with the other 19 boats. One of the "Titanic's" Lifeboats Approaching the "Carpathia," Barely Half Full. GGA Image ID # 108e86a1fa Titanic Survivors on Lifeboat 1 Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912) p. The Last Goodbyes - Placing Women in the Lifeboats. GGA Image ID # 100aab983fĭiagram IV: The Lowering of the Lifeboats of the Titanic. Had the ship been rolling heavily the lifeboats, as they were lowered, would have swung out from the side of the ship as it rolled toward them and on the return, roll would have swung back and crashed against its side. The point of suspension of the boats was about seventy feet above the level of the sea. Had the sea been rough, it is questionable whether any of the lifeboats of the Titanic would have reached the water without being damaged or destroyed. The Titanic’s boats were too far from the water. Just here, in this fatal discrepancy, is to be found proof of the widespread belief that a great ship like the Titanic was practically unsinkable and, therefore, in times of dire stress such as this, was well able to act as its lifeboat until rescuing ships, summoned by wireless, should come to her aid.
The lifeboats, forsooth! Twenty of them in all with a maximum accommodation, if everyone were loaded to its total capacity, of something over one thousand, for a ship's company numbered 2,223 in all.įour Boat-Loads of the Titanic’s Passengers at the Carpathia’s Side. Andrews, informed the captain that the ship was doomed was the order given to man the lifeboats. So confident were its officers of never using such equipment that no one even took the trouble to drill the crew in lowering the boats to the water. The Titanic, therefore, sailed with its life-saving equipment up to all legal requirements. A Boatload of the Titanic's Survivors Just Before They Were Succored by the "Carpathia." Harper's Weekly (27 April 1912) p. And the British board of trade, which exercises government authority over all British shipping, was too officially indolent to revise according to current conditions lifeboat regulations adopted when the largest ocean ships afloat were only a fifth the size of the Titanic. It was, without doubt, an honest illusion on the part of everybody connected with the firm that built the Titanic and the company that sailed it that the boat was unsinkable. The subsidiary cause, which was owing to the tremendous loss of life-the lack of sufficient boats to carry all passengers and the whole of the crew-is more easily accounted for. The fundamental mystery of the Titanic disaster is likely, therefore, always to remain an inexplicable puzzle. All but the rowers are women and children. It could have carried double the number of passengers. This photograph shows the insufficient loading of one of the lifeboats. Lightly Loaded Titanic Lifeboat Nears the Carpathia.
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