RMS Titanic and for the ship's operational use. Although "Titanic" had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, it only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—about half the number on board, and one third of her total capacity—due to outdated maritime safety regulations. The ship carried 16 lifeboat davits which could lower three lifeboats each, for a total of 48 boats. However, "Titanic" carried only a total of 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch during the sinking. After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, "Titanic" called at Cherbourg in France and
Port of Southampton representing 307 calls by passenger ships. On average, each docking is worth £1.25 million to the local economy. Southampton is the base of these cruise ships: and the ocean liner: In addition ships of other cruise companies sail from the port, including: - fourteen ships The container terminal is operated by DP World Southampton. The container port has of land – not counting the in the older Western Docks – available for port operations. Loading and unloading operations can be performed simultaneously on four large deep-sea container ships, plus one smaller ship 500 ft (150m) in length. This container terminal