Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic the ship. The boats were supposed to be stocked with emergency supplies, but "Titanic"s passengers later found that they had only been partially provisioned. No lifeboat or fire drills had been carried out since "Titanic" left Southampton. A lifeboat drill had been scheduled for the morning before the ship sank, but was cancelled, allegedly because the ship's captain, Edward Smith, wanted to deliver one last Sunday service before he went into full retirement. Lists had been posted on the ship allocating crew members to particular lifeboat stations, but few appeared to have read them or to have known what they
Saved from the Titanic "A Survivor of the Titanic" and in Germany as "Was die Titanic sie lehrte" ("What the "Titanic" Taught Her"). It attracted a positive review in "The Moving Picture World" of May 11, 1912, which described Gibson's performance as "a unique piece of acting in the sensational new film-play of the Éclair Company ... [which is] creating a great activity in the market, for the universal interest in the catastrophe has made a national demand." The review went on: The "Motion Picture News" commended the film's "wonderful mechanical and lighting effects, realistic scenes, perfect reproduction of the true history of the