gantry davits

Hello, I wonder if they had to raise that part of the ship for the davits if they were able to install them on the boat deck "normally" and at what point were they planned,after or before the sinking? I wonder if the britannic was done without the titanic sinking, it'd keep its welin davits...

Hello there, this is my first post. but anyways. After the Britannic sank and showed the advantages of Gantry davits, why didn't other ships employ them? they were clearly effective, the only other ships I remember having such was the Windsor Castle (and her sister ship) , and it only had two...

After studying the catwalk structure around the lifeboats that were under the gantry davits I have wondered how they were loaded? To enter the boats from the catwalks and ladders on them one would have to be rather adept. If we are talking about a hospital ship, there's just no way you could...

On the Britannic, gantry davits were added... Why, on the Olympic, were the same davits not added during one of her post-Titanic refits? It says on www.hospitalshipbritannic.com that the Olympic was fenced in by a wall of boats, but Britannic left the deck spacious and uncluttered, or something...