Ken’s Korner: Titanic needed ‘50% more lifeboats’ — safety officer
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By Ken Hall
A newly uncovered document reveals that a safety officer who inspected the Titanic right before her doomed maiden voyage urged the ship to take on “50 percent more lifeboats” but the recommendation was ignored by White Star Line, the Titanic’s owner. Maurice Clark, a civil servant, wrote that 30 additional lifeboats “would carry 1,767 people in an emergency. This permits of all persons being transferred to another ship in one return, not three. A sufficiency of boats would allay a panic.” Alas, his words fell on deaf ears.
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