Titanic's lifeboat complement

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1. Story
2. Twenty boats: 14 standard wooden lifeboats rated at 65 persons, 2 emergency cutters at 40, and 4 Engelhardt collapsibles at 47 — a total certificated capacity of 1,178 people for a ship licensed to carry over 3,300. The aggregate cubic capacity of 11,327.9 cubic feet comfortably exceeded the 9,625 cubic feet the Board of Trade rules demanded, and the davits fitted could have handled substantially more boats. In the event the boats were launched largely under-filled and carried away only about 700 people; the shortfall on the night was as much one of drill, organisation and time as of capacity.
3. Knowledge
4. Titanic's lifeboat complement
5. Connections
6. RMS Titanic
7. Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)
8. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
9. Last boat launched from the davits
10. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London
11. Evidence
12. Found the loss due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated; recorded the ship's particulars, the voyage timings, the ice messages received and the lifeboat complement; held that Titanic exceeded the Board of Trade requirement; found the Californian could have reached her; concluded (incorrectly) that the hull sank intact.
13. Required British vessels of 10,000 gross tons and over to carry 16 boats under davits with an aggregate capacity of 5,500 cubic feet, plus rafts and floats equal to a further 75 per cent; the tonnage scale was never extended above 10,000 tons before 1912.