bob haller wrote:

The Board of Trade required standard was "16 lifeboats for vessels
of 10,000 tons or greater."

The Titantic was FIVE TIMES larger than the maximum on the list. The
Board of Trade SHOULD have specified EIGHTY lifeboats for a ship
Titantic's size.

back then safety glasses, car seatbelts and tons of other safety
devices were unheard of.

besides they thought the ship was unsinkable

Well, there you are. Safety glasses, seatbelts, and the like wouldn't have
done the Titantic passengers one sliver of good.

In retrospect, the crew COULD have over-loaded the lifeboats. On a calm sea,
surely you wouldn't need the same freeboard as in 12-foot swells.
Particularily since the crew knew, or should have known, that help was only
a few hours away.

The RMS Carpathia acknowledged Titantic's distress call at 12:11 a.m. and
made maximum speed (17 knots) from 58 miles distance. The captain of the
Carpathia rousted a second black gang to stoke his boilers and turned off
all heating and hot water on the ship to conserve steam. The Titanic sank at
2:20 am. The Carpathia arrived on the scene at 4:00 a.m., one hour and forty
minutes too late.