Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)

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The rules made under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 that governed how many lifeboats a British ship had to carry. The scale was graduated by tonnage and simply stopped at its top band: vessels of 10,000 gross tons and over required 16 boats under davits with an aggregate capacity of 5,500 cubic feet, plus rafts or floats equal to a further 75 per cent. It was never extended upward as ships grew, so a 46,328-ton Titanic faced the same requirement as a 10,000-ton ship built eighteen years earlier — and legally exceeded it.

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