Lifeboats weren't the super-efficient kind we think of today - they were big, heavy and ungainly wooden crafts that not only took up a lot of room, but added a huge amount of weight to what the ship was carrying. At the time she was built, she was still legally bound by laws that had been put in place at the end of the 19th century. They cut corners, because who wants to spend money on lifeboats when you can be buying more practical things, like monogrammed linens?Īs unthinkable as it seems, not only is that completely false, but White Star had actually gone above and beyond the legal requirements for the number of lifeboats on the Titanic. (No one believes you only did it to make your girlfriend happy, by the way.) Part of the problem with the Titanic was that there wasn't enough lifeboats for the passengers, and that happened because White Star was run by greedy, corporate bastards who didn't think the ship would sink anyway.
We're going to start with the elephant in the room, the one that everyone thinks they know, even if all they know about the Titanic came from sitting through the movie 35 times.
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