The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, giving it enough capacity for ... when a ship accidentally rammed the RMS Republic. The Republic sank, but nearly everyone on board was safely ferried off before ...

But as he attempted to make his way back to the boat deck, he realized he couldn’t get near the lifeboats. A young Frank Winnold Prentice on the RMS Titanic as a storekeeper, earning monthly ...

The RMS Carpathia was over three hours away and came to rescue the stranded survivors. Of the roughly 2,200 people aboard the Titanic, only about 700 people made it into lifeboats. When the ...

For a ship of 2,200 passengers, only 20 lifeboats were available ... A small fast forward after the Titanic to another maritime disaster. In 1915, the RMS Lusitania was en route from New York ...

When RMS Titanic set sail on April 10 ... The ship did not have enough lifeboats for the approximately 2,220 people on board. More than 1,500 people lost their lives in the accident, and Titanic ...

On a cold, dark night in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic did ... to get to safety on the lifeboats. According to the BBC, the Titanic's "digital twin ...

The Titanic had 14 lifeboats plus two cutters and four collapsible ... there were seven trips down to the wreck to recover artifacts, mostly by RMS Titanic Inc., which owns the salvage rights ...

The 46,328 tons RMS Titanic of the White Star Line which sank ... However, the precise positioning of a lifeboat davit in the wreckage supports Second Officer Charles Lightoller's testimony ...