How many people can the titanic lifeboats hold?

Answer 1

Titanics lifeboats were estimated to carry as many as 70 people but the last one, lifeboats D fully had about 75 after taking off passengers from overturned lifeboat B.
The Titanic had three types of lifeboats, the standard lifeboat had 14 of these with a capacity of 68, but I would imagine more were able to fit into them when the Titanic was sinking.

The second type of lifeboat was the "emergency cutters" which were used for events such as a man overboard. The Titanic had 2 of these with the capacity of 40 people each.

The third and final lifeboat was the "Englehardt Collapsible Life Boat". These were canvas sided boats that could be folded up and stored against the walls of the Titanic, there were 4 of these on board with a capacity of 48.

Between 40 and 65 persons - dependant upon boat type

The Titanic was provided with 20 boats; all situated on the boat deck.

• Fourteen of these boats were lifeboats, hung inboard on davits (7 on port side, 7 on starboard side). These boats were designed to carry 65 persons each.

• Two were emergency boats, also hanging in davits, situated outboard, both port and starboard. They were designed to carry 40 persons each.

• The remaining four boats were of the collapsible variety, known as Englehardt. Two of these were stowed on the boat deck and two were on the roof of the officers' quarters, and were designed to carry 47 persons each.

The total boat accommodation was 1178 persons.

Source: The British Report into the wreck of the Titanic (1912).

Main lifeboats had a capacity of 65 people and collapsible lifeboats had a capacity of 40 people.

The lifeboats comprised 16 wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each and four collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 persons each.

They say up to 65 men.

there was 44 people approximately, some of them holding on to the sides. in all the life boats, there was 706 survivors.

the weight of 70 men and 65 people

The 16 full sized lifeboats could hold 65 people and the collapsible lifeboats could hold 40 people.

30 to 36

Titanic carried 16 full size lifeboats that could hold 65 people on each boat. There were 4 collapsible life boats that could hold 47 people each. A total of 1228 people could have survived with the 20 lifeboats titanic carried. Given the possibility of squeezing extra people in without capsizing, a possible number could have been 1300.

With today's fat people though, less would have been saved.

Well, according to the Titanic movie, about 21 or 22 passengers could fit on the lifeboats. Then again, people rowed back to the scene to try to find passengers that were still alive.

Answer 2

The Titanic had three different types of lifeboats. There were 14 clinker-built wooden lifeboats that could hold a capacity of 65 people each. There were 2 wooden cutters that were originally intended to be used as emergency boats. They could hold a capacity of 40 people. There were 4 "collapsible" Engelhardt lifeboats that could hold a capacity of 47 people each. All in all, all of these 20 lifeboats combined could hold 1,178 people, but nearly half of those lifeboats were only half-filled and the crew members manning them didn't want to go back to pull survivors out of the water for fear that extra people would swamp the boat. But after consolidating some passengers into other lifeboats, 2 of them went back to pull people out of the water, but they only pulled out a small handful out of the more than 1,500 people in the water. Many that were pulled out died from hypothermia shortly after being rescued

Answer 3

A life boat could only hold 70-75 people in each lifeboat

Answer 4

Titanics lifeboats were estimated to carry as many as 70 people but the last one, lifeboats D fully had about 75 after taking off passengers from overturned lifeboat B.

Answer 5

1500 people could fit in the 16 lifeboats and the 4 collapsible boats

Answer 6

70