FALSE. Titanic already carried enough lifeboats for all of the 534 women and children on board and more than an
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Month: April 2019
107 #72: Third class passengers were kept below as Titanic sank and were prevented from entering the lifeboats
FALSE. But this is possibly true in the case of some Third Class men, in some parts of the ship,
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107 #71: Titanic’s first officer allowed a lifeboat with a capacity of 40 to leave with only five passengers in it
TRUE. First Officer Murdoch, loading lifeboats on Titanic’s starboard side, allowed men into lifeboats as long as there was space
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107 #70: Titanic developed a list to port when sinking and passengers were ordered to the starboard side to correct it
TRUE. Titanic carried a permanent, but slight, list to port on her maiden voyage, caused by the loading of the
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107 #69: One man escaped by pretending to be a woman in order to get into a lifeboat
TRUE. It is possible that more than one man might have done so. Fifth Officer Lowe said that he had
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107 #68: Titanic’s second officer prevented men and even boys from entering lifeboats even though there was space for them
TRUE. Almost certainly because of his views about loading the lifeboats from the water, explained above. Lightoller tried to prevent
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