Some were taken on board The Carpathia then stored at pier 54 on arrival in New York. Their name plates were taken off then after some months returned to Britain where the White Star shipping line refurbished them and used them on other ships. Well, they were `new' after all.
The collapsible boats A B C and D were left to sink along with the rest of the flotsam and jetsam.
If the evacuation of the ship had been handled a lot better then all the children of 1st, 2nd and steerage woud have been saved along with many of the women. An hour was lost evaluating the dmage to the ship then letting the 1st and 2nd class passengers know and getting them into the boats. One boat was lowered into the sea with 16 passengers in it because there were no other passengers by it at the time!
Very badly organised with too many jobsworth crew allowing terrified passengers access to parts of the ship due to `class' and the fact that the damn thing was said to be unsinkable.
Moral. Do NOT tempt Providence by saying `even God Himself cannot sink this ship'.
Only ONE lifeboat went back to find survivors but by then it was to late..
Most were put on the Carpathia and returned to the White Star Line...
Find your question really interesting - we have a Titanic exhibition here in the Liverpool Maritime Museum and I don't remember this being mentioned - I will have to make another visit. Look forward to seeing other answers
At the time of the incident, noone knew how "important" it would become, did they????
Their only action would be to recover the passengers, there would be no time, nor space to recover any boats, they would just be left to float around...
well yeah, how do you suppose they could winch them up? and towing them would have swamped them. they were just left to float around until they rotted or intentionally sunk i guess.
edit: life boats have a little valve at the bottom you can open to sink them and when on station left open to prevent water collecting in the boat, they couldn't have winched them up as they already had their own life boats on the divots.
there were less then half for passangers n the ones that made it were only half full (dont know why but true) after that back in 1912 they made sure boats had enough life boats 4 people
They were left in the Ocean along with the Iceberg.
I bet the Iceberg would be worth more.
Flog it in bits on Ebay.
1 Iceberg that sank the Titanic.
What do you mean it is not the original. I've had it in cold storage.
Prove it isn't.
perhaps they were collected and stored for the retro-collectors market, so that future grief merchants could sit in the boats and get upset about some people who died 100 years ago.
yes, good question! but i don′t know the answer. you would expect them to be saved, since it was big event even in 1912.
good question don't know I suppose some were taken and put in sonme museum
After Carpathia picked up the survivors , were Titanics lifeboats simply left floating in the Atlantic ?
It was in the vales stomach.
