RMS Titanic Lifeboat Vintage Hand Coloured Poster

Titanic carried a total of 20 lifeboats: 14 standard wooden Harland and Wolff lifeboats with a capacity of 65 people each and four Englehardt "collapsible" (wooden bottom, collapsible canvas sides) lifeboats (identified as A to D) with a capacity of 47 people each. In addition, she had two emergency cutters with a capacity of 40 people each. All of the lifeboats were stowed securely on the boat deck and, except for collapsible lifeboats A and B, connected to davits by ropes. Those on the starboard side were odd-numbered 1–15 from bow to stern, while those on the port side were even-numbered 2–16 from bow to stern. This is from an authentic, antique, and vintage, hand coloured magic lantern slide. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 14-15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. This image was captured from the deck of the RMS Carpathia.