lifeboat drill

Hi, Does anyone know why the proposed lifeboat drill for the Sunday late morning was cancelled? Not that it mattered as in the end, Murdoch and Lightholler as well as the other officers carried out their roles admirably that evening under immense stress, with only one minor mishap in the...

Hello everyone, This will not be a thread directed to Titanic specifically, but one can quickly realise it's from a common related subject. So, I have found this video: It's a propaganda newsreel about the safety features of the Aquitania in the 1920's. In regard to the lifeboats, it claims...

I gather there was supposed to be a lifeboat drill on ship on the Sunday, but for some reason this didn't happen. One explanation that I have heard is that this was dropped because the disparity between the lifeboat capacity and the number of people on board would have been obvious; I don't...

Sorry if this has already been discussed but I haven't seen anything about it. I know that a drill was scheduled for Sunday morning but was put off. Just wanting some view points... how much of a difference do you think a drill would have made? Personally I see two main scenerios...